Florus
correspondent of Ennodius of Pavia|Northern Italy (Ostrogothic kingdom)
Florus is known only as a correspondent of Ennodius of Pavia (Magnus Felix Ennodius, c. 474-521), the deacon and rhetorician who became bishop of Pavia and whose voluminous letter collection documents the cultured Catholic elite of Ostrogothic Italy under Theoderic. He received six letters from Ennodius but is otherwise little attested; nothing is securely known of his career, offices, or dates apart from this correspondence. As an addressee in Ennodius's network he was most plausibly a member of the literate aristocratic or clerical circles of northern Italy in the late fifth to early sixth century, the milieu of Milan, Pavia, and Ravenna that Ennodius habitually addressed in his polished, mannered Latin.
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From Ennodius of Paviac. 493 AD
I know I have undertaken a hard campaign and am lifting a heavy burden on weak shoulders — I who have roused your...
From Ennodius of Paviac. 497 AD
When friends owe a debt of correspondence and pay it jointly, the creditor can hardly complain about the terms.
From Ennodius of Paviac. 501 AD
Having performed the duty of a persistent creditor, I now call in the debt of a promise.
From Ennodius of Paviac. 503 AD
You can judge from the quality of your own heart how tightly I hold you and with what devotion I embrace you.
From Ennodius of Paviac. 511 AD
Who more justly learns the signs of my prosperity than you?
From Ennodius of Paviac. 512 AD
The distinguished Eleutherius, in a matter of his own that the Vicar had accepted for hearing from the lord Prefect,...