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.

XXXXVIIII. APRUNCULO EPISCOPO RURICIUS EPISCOPUS. Exegit mutui amoris affectus ad indiuiduam mihi sanctitatem uestram sola ex causa litteras destinare, etiamsi non se occasio 4] Luc. 6, 88. Matth. 7, 2. 12] Psalm. 48, 17. 16] Psalm. 75, 6. 21] Matth. 19, 29. 23] Matth. 6, 19. 1 ascendit S 8 benefitia S 5 mensuram S remitietur S 10 nondinationibuB S descendet scripsi coli. lin. 15, discendit S, discedet v Kr., discedit Mommsenus 11 porcionem S 18 timueritis 11 15 discendit S 17 in om. S, add. Utdg . 20 frater carissime v 22 centuplo Luetjohann a tinea v, oatenea S ptimiscere S exterminum S 24 custo S est] finit add. S 28 ex] ea coni. Mommsenus distinari S + oportuna porrigeret. unde per hominem filii mei Leontii has ad apostolatum uestrum dedi, quibus sospitatione praelata, quam ex sententia deo fauente ualeatis, inquiro, quia ipsi nostis incolumitatem uestram nostram esse laetitiam, sperans, ut redeunte praefato nos reddatis de uestris actibus propitia diuinitate securos, quos uidetis esse (de) prosperitate sollicitos.