Letter 7023: Your Greatness extends the festivities of the wedding, and the joy that attends them spreads like ripples in water.

From: Ennodius, deacon in Pavia To: Maximus Date: ~512 AD Context: A letter about wedding festivities — Maximus is apparently extending the celebration, and Ennodius comments. Ennodius to Maximus. Your Greatness extends the festivities of the wedding, and the joy that attends them spreads like ripples in water. I share in it from a distance, wishing I could be present but content to participate through the medium of this letter. May the marriage be blessed, and may the celebration be worthy of the union it honors. Farewell.

XXIII. ENNODIVS MAXIMO. Producit magnitudo tua nuptiarum festa temporibus: dum rem, ad quam coactus es, sub diuturnitate prosequeris, subito necessitas tua facta est desiderium. aliquis negotio illi perenniter incumbat, ad quod descendit inuitus P sic recessisti a custoditae beatitudinis diligentia, quasi prolixis temporibus didicisses, qualiter institueretur uxorius. triginta feliciter dies abierunt, et te ciuitati adhuc (et) meis oculis longa me macerans expectatione subducis. uere quicquid uis facias: si uixero, quae tibi dicenda texui, non tacebo. tamen honore salutationis accepto gustum de guttulis, ut fratrem decet a fratre, directa suscipite. erubesce tu, quia nec aegrum requiris nec de nuptialibus deliciis quae possent fastidium releuare transmittis.