6 surviving letters between Ennodius of Pavia and Messala, spanning 495-521 AD.
[Messala appears to be a young man of good family whose rhetorical education Ennodius is overseeing -- or at least...
If the divine favor has at last turned you from your habit of negligence toward the correspondence I have long...
I endure the absence of your letters if — as it seems — your silence is the price of excellence.
I know you well enough to trust that your devotion will only grow with time.
Good fortune that arrives without warning is the best kind, because it carries no burden of anticipation.
Has there ever been a time when you were free from the obligation of my letters?