Letter 2037: Since your devotion departed, I feel myself cut in half.
Bishop Ruricius to his sweetest grandchildren Parthenius and Papianilla.
Since your devotion departed, I feel myself cut in half. The greater part of me — the inner man — has gone walking with you, while only the body remains behind. And yet I also see that you remain in this heart of mine that stayed here. I send my greetings to your sweetness and remind you to remember my words — for it is certain, as Solomon says, that you can make progress in what is good with God's guidance, if you take the counsel of your elders to heart.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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