Letter 5017: Item ad eundem salutatoria

Venantius FortunatusUnknown|c. 580 AD|Venantius Fortunatus
friendship

Another Greeting to Gregory

A letter running from you visits me with dignity, holy bishop, man of piety — I seize it eagerly, running through it with eyes and soul, rejoicing that you are well — which its greeting reported. Let a longer page, sent under your name, Pope Gregory, refresh me here with the help of its greeting.

Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.

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