Letter 6027: The richness of your conscience overflows into everything you do.
Ennodius of Pavia→Senarius, an man (a Roman official at Burgundian court)|c. 515 AD|Ennodius of Pavia
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From: Ennodius, deacon in Pavia
To: Senarius
Date: ~515 AD
Context: A letter praising the richness of Senarius's conscience and its fruitful effects.
Ennodius to Senarius.
The richness of your conscience overflows into everything you do. The man whose inner life is well-ordered produces outward works that reflect it, and yours — visible to all who know you — are the proof of a soul in good health.
I write to commend what I observe and to encourage its continuation. Farewell.
XXVII. ENNODIVS SENARIO.
Vber conscientiam uestram pro superna dispensatione
uicissitudo comitetur: reddat pro paruitate mea altissimus
quod agnoscit a uobis, qui semper amantibus fideles extitistis,
fuisse conlatum. certus portus est pectoris uestri inuenisse
diligentiam: estis hac conuersatione praediti, ut amicorum
spem beneficii conlatione uincatis. secundam admonitionem
desidero, ut iniunctum iter adripiam: date felicem dexteram
humilitati meae et prospera mecum uestra diuidite. domine
mi, salutationis obsequia praesentans quaeso, ut si rerum
dominus apud Rauennam feliciter commorabitur indicetis,
quatenus sine ambiguo praecepta uestra perficiam.
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From:Ennodius, deacon in Pavia
To:Senarius
Date:~515 AD
Context:A letter praising the richness of Senarius's conscience and its fruitful effects.
Ennodius to Senarius.
The richness of your conscience overflows into everything you do. The man whose inner life is well-ordered produces outward works that reflect it, and yours — visible to all who know you — are the proof of a soul in good health.
I write to commend what I observe and to encourage its continuation. Farewell.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.