El Suggerendum de Tarra a Recaredo

The letter that Tarra - possibly a monk in the monastery of Cauliana - wrote to King Reccaredus constitutes one of the most surprising texts of the Epistulae Wisigothicae. as much in its form as in its contents. In this article some differences in reading and interpretation with regard to the latest edition of the letter (J. Gil, 1972) are proposed, based in part on the analysis of the rhythmic cursus of the prose, obtained basically by a reiterated accumulation of the sequences. A series of observations is also made regarding the motives of the letter, based on the mentioned analysis and its content, which seem to have a legal justification in the Lex Visig. VI, 1, 6 (antiqua).