Letter 7022: Your Eminence's voice carries more weight in a single line than lesser men achieve in pages.
To Maximus, from Ennodius.
Your Eminence's voice carries more weight in a single line than lesser men achieve in pages. I write to you knowing that even your briefest reply would be received as a gift of immense value.
Do not deprive me of it. Farewell.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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