Letter 6033: I know that the weight of your shared responsibilities leaves little room for the claims of private friendship.

Ennodius of PaviaHormisdas and Dioscorus|c. 518 AD|Ennodius of Pavia
friendship
From: Ennodius, bishop of Pavia
To: Hormisdas and Dioscorus [Pope Hormisdas and the deacon Dioscorus]
Date: ~520 AD
Context: A letter to the pope and his deacon, perhaps during the final negotiations to end the Acacian Schism — a tantalizing connection between two correspondences in this database.

Ennodius to Hormisdas and Dioscorus.

I know that the weight of your shared responsibilities leaves little room for the claims of private friendship. But I write anyway, because the bond between us predates the burdens you now carry and will, I trust, outlast them.

May God bless your labors. The work you do is His work, and those of us who watch from a distance pray daily for its success. Farewell.

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

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