Ennodius of Pavia → Faustus Albus
Tradução moderna em inglês
Although Your Greatness has attested to forgetfulness of me through long silence, and while withholding from epistolary duties has cast aside the memory of one who serves you, nevertheless heavenly providence does not allow your prosperity to be hidden from my desires, and by various signs reveals the success I hoped for concerning you. Yet now my soul has been so far drawn by its bond that I have sent a special bearer to us, who, fed by the living sight, may bring manifest good news back to me. Believe me, my lords, I am bound to you by a great obligation, nor is any rest given to my heart in which I do not seek the sight of you with full attention. It remains that, with concord restored in the Roman Church, the occasion of meeting you may come about. My lord, speaking the fullest greeting to your reverence, I beg that you receive with favorable hearing the petition of the bearer — my man — and that you inform me by his return about your good fortune and the state of your entire household.
Texto latino / grego
XXXIIII. ENNODIVS FAVSTO ALBO. Quamuis magnitudo uestra per longum silentium obliuionem mei fuerit contestata et dum ab epistolaribus munus 2 hormisde TV, ormisdae b diochoro LVb, dioscorio T 3 religio∗∗sam (ni eras.) grandam L, grande religiosam T 4 nascantur L 6 allegatio LTV 8 dominum Tb 9 qua b utilitate espondente L 10 fuisse] suis fecisse L actum est om. b 11 diligendi T1 inducias Vb 12 proteitetur T ∗∗∗∗nunc L (nunc eras. uidetur), sed nunc b 13 quare poecitur b 14 eiusque b I 15 compensit b domine b m T, mihi L Vb 16 dominum b qui b, quo LV, om. T in exitu lineae sed ut s. I. m. 2 18 contestationem b moeroris b, meroris LTV 20 imminutione TV suspitiat T\' XXXIIII. 24 munis T temperat, memoriam obsequentis abiecerit, attamen prouidentia caelestis desideriis meis prospera uestra non patitur occultari et uariis indiciis successum circa nos resignat optatum. nunc tamen animus meus usque ad hoc deuinctione productus est, Ut proprium ad nos dirigerem perlatorem, qui uiuis pastus aspectibus bona ad me manifesta perducat. credite, domini, magna me uobis esse obligatione constrictum nec ullas pectori meo ferias dari, quibus uisionem uestram non plena intentione disquiram. superest, ut reducta in ecclesia Romana concordia occurrendi uobis contingat occasio. domine mi, salutationem reuerentiae uestrae plenissimam dicens deprecor, ut suggestionem portitoris hominis mei grato suscipiatis auditu et do felicitate uestra uel totius domus statu recurrenti nos instruatis alloquio.