Letter 2006: I heard through a faint rumor that Your Piety has been unwell.

VI. To the holy lord, most blessed in his merits, the bishop [papa, here "father bishop"] to be revered with the homage of honor, and the apostolic father, the lord bishop Ruricius, from Eufrasius. I have learned by faint rumor that your Piety is afflicted with weariness [i.e. ill health], but I have dispatched the bearer of this letter, so that you may quickly relieve my anxiety over the bitterness of the news; for divine Piety knows that I share in both your sorrow and your infirmity not with the grief of one who merely sympathizes, but of one who bears it himself. So may divine compassion grant, that it may bestow upon me for many years the vigor of your outward man [the body] and the briskness of unimpaired health; for I truly feel that I am restored only then, when I have sooner learned, as I long to, of your well-being.

VI. DOMNO SANCTO MERITIS BEATISSIMO PAPAE HONORIS CULTU SUSPICIENDO ATQVE APOSTOLICO PATRI DOMNO RURICIO EPISCOPO EUFRASIUS. Taediosam pietatem uestram esse tenui rumore cognoui, sed harum baiulum destinaui, ut anxietatem meam de acerbitate nuntii celeriter releuetis, quia scit diuina pietas, quod et tristitiam et infirmitatem uestram non conpatientis, sed perferentis dolore participo. sic ita concedat diuina miseratio, ut mihi per multos annos exterioris uestri uigorem et alacritatem integrae sanitatis indulgeat, quia uere tunc reparatum esse me sentio, si de sospitate uestra celerius optata cognouero.