Letter 9011: Ad Lupum et Waldonem diaconos
To Deacons Lupus and Waldon
To be cultivated with fatherly heart and constant piety — here gentle Lupus, there holy Waldon — as you both are ministers together in equal goodness and equal honor, so consider me always with equal and similar love.
I do what I can: absent, I still pay my greeting. If I cannot come with my eyes, I seek you with these little letters. Please commend us to the highest bishop [the bishop of Paris], we ask — and carry the work of greeting to the kings and lords.
To sweet Droctoveus, the clergy and fellow citizens, I ask: act as my stand-in for what I would do if present. Let the excellent Mummolus and Caesarius be venerated, and remember me to my friend Constantinus.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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