Letter 3025: That gratitude should lose its footing among you is a possibility I cannot easily accept.
Ennodius of Pavia→Eugenetes|c. 513 AD|Ennodius of Pavia
grief death
From: Ennodius, deacon in Pavia
To: Eugenetes
Date: ~514 AD
Context: A letter lamenting that gratitude seems to be losing its footing among Eugenetes's circle.
To Eugenetes, from Ennodius.
That gratitude should lose its footing among you is a possibility I cannot easily accept. I write to test whether the bond between us still holds, or whether time and distance have eroded what I believed to be solid ground.
A reply would reassure me. Silence would confirm my fears. The choice is yours. Farewell.
XXV. EVGENETI ENNODIVS.
In statione non esse apud uos gratiam potest qui fide claudus
est aestimare: uolo tamen ad diligentiae testimonium prorogari
frequentiam litterarum, ne animus de amantis prosperitate
sollicitus, dum salus in ualitudine est, suspicionibus uentiletur.
ecce habes, mi domine, unde serenitatem pectoris mei ex desiderii
proditione cognoscas. adesto partibus tuis et sicut me
imperati muneris praerogatiua sublimat, ita uos exhibiti gratia
sermonis attollat. ergo salutem debendam restituens precor, ut
quid promoueat in me desiderium tuum sub cuiuscumque significationis
nube dilucides. uale.
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From: Ennodius, deacon in Pavia
To: Eugenetes
Date: ~514 AD
Context: A letter lamenting that gratitude seems to be losing its footing among Eugenetes's circle.
To Eugenetes, from Ennodius.
That gratitude should lose its footing among you is a possibility I cannot easily accept. I write to test whether the bond between us still holds, or whether time and distance have eroded what I believed to be solid ground.
A reply would reassure me. Silence would confirm my fears. The choice is yours. Farewell.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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