Letter 8017: Ad eundem salutatoria
Another Greeting to Gregory
If men would stop hurrying so quickly, I would wish to send songs to you, dear father, on the southern wind. But since I have a bearer now, I offer a word — less eloquent than what love cultivates.
Sweet, excellent, our adornment, holy Pope Gregory — I discharge the duty of greeting in brief verses. But remember me yourself and commend me, I beg, to the Thunderer [God]: may he thus make you companion to the throne of honor.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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