Letter 7025: The law that desire writes for friendship is one I know well — it compels the pen when reason might counsel silence.
Ennodius to Symmachus.
The law that desire writes for friendship is one I know well — it compels the pen when reason might counsel silence. I write to you under that compulsion, hoping that the same law operates on your end and that a reply will follow. Farewell.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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