Letter 2049: The bond of mutual love has compelled me to send a letter to Your Holiness, who is inseparable from me, for the sole...
Bishop Ruricius to Bishop Aprunculus.
The bond of mutual love has compelled me to send a letter to Your Holiness, who is inseparable from me, for the sole reason of affection — even if no other occasion had presented itself. For it would be wrong if the obligations of love, which grow with the passage of time, should be starved by the distance between us. And so I write simply to say: I miss you, I pray for you, and I long to see your face.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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