Letter 6004: I have not written in order to burden you with the bitter news of my affliction, but rather to urge your concern —...

IV. Ennodius to Faustus. I have not written in order to burden you with the bitter report of my own indisposition, but in order to engage your concern, that it may persist in its prayers. An ill-timed labor, before my strength had recovered its former substance, harmed my eyes: all light has departed from me, together with you. It is enough to have indicated what I suffer. It is yours to demand my recovery from God, whom you appease with prayers, and to bring aid through frequent conversations to one who is unbarring the doors of letters. My lord, I beseech God that He may cause that to be reported to me by you which it would delight me to learn.

IIII. FAVSTO ENNODIVS. Non scripsi, ut amaro incommoditatis meae indicio uos grauarem, sed ut sollicitudinem uestram, quatenus insistat orationibus, conuenirem. male oculos meos ante receptae ualitudinis substantiam inpositus labor accepit: omne a me uobiscum lumen abscessit. sat est significasse quod patior. uestrum est prosperitatem meam a deo, quem precibus placatis, exigere et reseranti litterarum fores crebris opem ferre conloquiis. domine mi, deum quaeso, ut illud a uobis indicari faciat quod me delectet agnoscere.