Letter 6022: Diligence is the cause of many letters.
Ennodius of Pavia→Eugenetes|c. 511 AD|Ennodius of Pavia
friendship
From: Ennodius, deacon in Pavia
To: Eugenetes
Date: ~511 AD
Context: A brief letter explaining that diligence itself is the cause of multiple pages — Ennodius writes often because he cares often.
Ennodius to Eugenetes.
Diligence is the cause of many letters. I do not write because I have much to say but because I have much to feel, and the feeling demands an outlet. If the quantity seems excessive, blame the affection that produces it. Farewell.
XXII. ENNODIVS EVGENETI.
Diligentia est multiplicium causa paginarum. reuerentiae
uestrae debetur quod ab scriptione non tempero. testis gaudii
la
3 aabdl B dum a. I. m. ree., sableuor b ut] ac ex at\' (corr. B,
ac b nuntiatur B m. rec. 8. I., nunciatur b exspecto LV, expeto
b 5 dedicistis B
XXI. 11 efficatia ex efficia L m. cmt. 13 raoenaitibus L\'
excnbiiB ocoapatus T, occupatu stadiis F, cocupatas excabiifl studiis
L 15 iccirco T uiais (alt. u corr.) B, uiui L 17 huiusmodo
L I oportunitas BLTVb 18 subletia B 20 medellam
B* animUl B1L
XXII. 25 ab B\'L, a B\'TVb
VI.
11
non patitur uox defectum, quia statum ualitudinis uestrae
laetus excepi. ualete.
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From: Ennodius, deacon in Pavia
To: Eugenetes
Date: ~511 AD
Context: A brief letter explaining that diligence itself is the cause of multiple pages — Ennodius writes often because he cares often.
Ennodius to Eugenetes.
Diligence is the cause of many letters. I do not write because I have much to say but because I have much to feel, and the feeling demands an outlet. If the quantity seems excessive, blame the affection that produces it. Farewell.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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