Manichaeism before the Manichaeans, and its Revival in Christianity

...you even now embrace. Indeed, I would take it upon myself to recount these here in a long list, were it not that YOUR incredible modesty modestia: a highly valued character trait in the 17th century, where a superior was expected to receive praise with humility of spirit brings it about that you consider it a favor beneficium: a formal term for a kindness or gift that established a social bond between a patron and a client conferred upon YOU if those things which proceeded from YOU were consigned to oblivion rather than celebrated with lengthy speeches. Since this has become known to me from YOUR personal conversations—the enjoyment of which I rank as a most significant part of my happiness—it would seem to me that I was acting in a way most foreign of all to the principles of an honorable man, if I were to attempt to adorn with speech (not without causing a sense of weariness) original: "non sine fastidio"; the author suggests that excessive praise would be distasteful or annoying to a truly modest person those things which I doubt I can even grasp in my own thoughts.

You have the reasons for my decision, MOST ESTEEMED PATRONS; now also learn those reasons which led me to believe that pardon would be granted to me by YOU for this audacity audaciae: a conventional rhetorical apology where the author asks forgiveness for the "boldness" of attaching a great man's name to his own work, by which—for the sake of testifying to a most devoted spirit—I have presented a writing of no importance...