Letter 3025: That gratitude should lose its footing among you is a possibility I cannot easily accept.

Ennodius of PaviaEugenetes|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.

Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.

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