Letter 2059: While you make excuses for our negligence and laziness, you actually expose them — and we recognize through your...
Bishop Ruricius to his son Severus — greetings.
While you make excuses for our negligence and laziness, you actually expose them — and we recognize through your kindnesses and services how much we have been failing in ours.
AI-assisted translation — This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek below for scholarly use.
Latin / Greek Original
LVIIII. RURICIUS EPISCOPU6 FILIO SEUERO SALUTEM.
Neglegentiam nostram atque pigritiam dum uos excusatis,
arguitis et nos beneficiis et officiis uestris agnoscimus
1 supplicarunt v 2 uestri v praecator S quibus Luctjohann, cui
Mommsenus confessiouem S culpe S 6 propitio deo v ut Lttetjoham,
et S uot5 S, nobis v 8 ms S, noster v 9 indisperato S, in desperato
(scil . casu) Mommseum 10 spiritalis v, spiritale ex spiritali S 13 superest]
ut add. Luetjohann consequatur v .14 lenitatem S 15 inuocantes v,
inuocantis SKr., inuocetis Mommsenus 16 oportit S 17 inpertiit aeram
v, inperti. iteru S 19 amplectamur ex amplectemur S 21 paulolum S
22 excluderitis S eum suprascr . S restitueritis S 23 incolomeno S
27 pegritiam 8 dum v, n S, non ante arguitis inRmt Mommmuu
debitores. sed scio hoc sincero amore, quo nos diligitis, facere
atque perfecto, quia parum est caritati uestrae, quod nobis
tribuitis, dum totos uos nobis et cotidie inpendere desideratis.
sed nobis satis superque sufficeret beniuolentia [quam] prompti
animi, etiamsi adsiduitas deesset obsequii. unde salutatione
depensa gratias ago uberrimas pietati uestrae, quod erga me
. bonae memoriae patris uestri non solum retinetis, sed etiam
uicistis affectum.
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