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ennodius_pavia · c. 509 · score 0.02
Where in the world were we? From what ruin has heavenly mercy restored us to human life? Let us therefore render to the bestower of this blessing, in urgent words and prolonged sighs, what we owe; let us invite to the custody of his gifts the one whom we have proved to bear aid in times of uncertainty. Let us beseech h …
ennodius_pavia · c. 509 · score 0.02
Both what is pious befits me to hope, and it befits you to grant. For by unequal paths an intention deserving reward tends toward a single end. You bestow solaces on affairs; from me the slender aid of speech is required. So it comes about that the one upon whom it falls by consideration of office to furnish greater th …
ennodius_pavia · c. 513 · score 0.02
--- How often the sins of others press down upon us, and what has its origin nowhere in ourselves is charged, with every appearance of justice, against our own transgressions! From my own experience I have learned that the testimony of the ancients does not perish — for through new events, the ancient proclamation of t …
ennodius_pavia · c. 512 · score 0.02
A sick soul, just as it does not endure silences, so also forswears the advance of narration: neither taciturnity nor extended discourse suits the attestation of sorrow; the page is constrained to which words are scarcely granted amid groans. But why do I assert holidays for the tongue by speaking more, and why do I pr …
ennodius_pavia · c. 514 · score 0.02
Sins resist desires, and so that the state of merits may become known to sinners, what is desired is withdrawn from the nearness of their lips. Things offered afflict more bitterly when they perish: thirst is more powerful when the taste of water has increased it; benefits denied at the first approach do not burn the m …
ennodius_pavia · c. 516 · score 0.02
The occasion that serves as the bearer of my writing to you obeys my desire. For conversation soothes in place of presence and promises to itself through the sending of pages what it displays, because the most refined men, just as they consider it a reproach to their virtues that anyone has surpassed them in testimony …
ennodius_pavia · c. 509 · score 0.01
--- When affection seeks its own remedies and longs to be relieved of anxiety's fever through the medicine of conversation, the very act of foresight fans the flame: from the source one believed would extinguish the fire, a doubled blaze of longing rises instead. Often, in my searching about for an abundance of letter- …
ennodius_pavia · c. 493 · score 0.01
Ennodius to Florus. I know I have undertaken a hard campaign and am lifting a heavy burden on weak shoulders — I who have roused your Sublimity, quiet enough as far as I am concerned, with the goads of words. So does feeble youth provoke beasts that bare their fangs, and in challenging what exceeds its strength, reckon …
ennodius_pavia · c. 520 · score 0.01
The announcement of your illness fell upon the increase of my own. For such is always the habit and almost the nature of the anxious: one scarcely believes that what one feared has passed, and what our redeemer has done by heavenly kindness in the past one sighs over as if it were placed before one's eyes. Lord Avienus …
ennodius_pavia · c. 493 · score 0.01
Ennodius to Pope Symmachus. A good commander knows to encourage the proven valor of a soldier who has been tested in battle, so that courage, nourished by praise, may learn to forget its love of life in the next engagement. Whose strength is not fed by a general's commendation? What limbs, even those of a raw recruit, …
ennodius_pavia · c. 518 · score 0.01
Let the communion firmly established in you know no outside attachment: let her restore your mother in character and conduct, and you your father. Let the form of your ancestors, worthy of embrace, not perish from the world while it is reborn in you. No foreign or adventitious examples of life are demanded — follow wha …
ennodius_pavia · c. 511 · score 0.01
Hope, which demands a frequency of letters, mocks me. For relying on it, I feed my soul with ineffective conversations. It has been a long time since, ceaselessly sending forth writings, the silence I believed I had conquered is confirmed. But what am I to do, when a heart besieged by pious love is reduced to desperati …
ennodius_pavia · c. 493 · score 0.01
Ennodius to Arator. I would like you to look kindly on my effort and forgive the poverty of my talent, because it is wrong to despise the lovable desire to learn when it shows itself in acts of devotion — especially since a harsh interpreter of reality can empty of meaning what a gracious one has offered. A man deserve …
ennodius_pavia · c. 514 · score 0.01
As soon as heavenly grace looked upon me and relaxed for the soul trembling at the nearness of heavenly judgment a space of living, granted that it might improve, I did not keep silent to Your Greatness by letter about God's benefits. Truly, with physicians ceasing, the medicine of him who is purchased by innocence and …
ennodius_pavia · c. 514 · score 0.01
May a favorable omen, arriving to strengthen your auspices, fortify the beginnings of your hoary dignity with divine counsels. May heavenly favor through you govern the lord of liberty, so that from the fountain of your breast there may flow to the ears of the prince what the heavenly rain has poured into you. Behold, …
ennodius_pavia · c. 499 · score 0.01
How well had habit trained my soul to the patience of separation, while prolonged silences, through the necessity of their own sweetness, bred contempt for absent delights\! The scar that had been progressing toward the healing of pious love has been torn open again. I confess, venerable sister, your letter, seasoned w …
ennodius_pavia · c. 516 · score 0.01
By what return of reciprocity, by what care of services shall it be repaid to me that I address you with frequent pages and do not shrink from the duty of speech emerging into the public light? Neither your age nor a formula equal to my talent can call me back. I choose to trust the kind more than the expert, so that t …
ennodius_pavia · c. 506 · score 0.01
Faustus, from Ennodius. If the mind of one who loves restrains itself from the habit of courtesies, it reckons that very cessation an ill omen. For a man is the cause of his own grief who does not always believe that what he loves dwells nearby. Would anyone judge that a man has departed to distant places when he touch …
ennodius_pavia · c. 496 · score 0.01
Ennodius to Faustus. I have not written in order to burden you with the bitter news of my affliction, but rather to urge your concern — to persist in your prayers on my behalf. The labor imposed on my eyes before my health had fully recovered has dealt them a severe blow: all light has departed from me along with you. …
ennodius_pavia · c. 519 · score 0.01
It is demonstrated by divine examples that the visitation of heavenly persons does not come except through the grace of God. For what remembrance can there be of sinners, unless heavenly favor works by hidden paths and by a way inspired in minds the forgetfulness that could creep in on account of sins is eliminated? Co …
ennodius_pavia · c. 517 · score 0.01
Struck down by the bitter assault of illness and crushed by the violent excess of fevers, when our Christ, to confirm the testimony of the ancient mystery, had shown in me what he had done in Lazarus and declared the truth of the Gospel by present examples, I received your letter. He who was able ordained that in the d …
ennodius_pavia · c. 509 · score 0.01
--- The business of Julian — my kinsman and your devoted admirer — is laboring under the manifold machinations of Marcellinus, a man who, prepared to do nothing but complain, nonetheless distrusts the very integrity of the tribunal he invokes. He avoids the examinations he professes to desire. For after Marcellinus is …
ennodius_pavia · c. 517 · score 0.01
After my first conversations gave effect to my hope, I loosened my lips, long on holiday, to the exercise of speech: for even one to whom Latian learning does not come readily through his conscience is animated by successes. When studies cease, joys have often rendered one eloquent: if gladness dispels the clouds of so …
ennodius_pavia · c. 518 · score 0.01
--- Though the exchange of letters between those who love each other is always a delight — and from such gifts, even when Spartan brevity governs the pen, long rivers of joy flow forth — and though correspondence of this kind serves as a remedy for those who are separated and a fulfillment of longing for those who are …
ennodius_pavia · c. 503 · score 0.01
Ennodius to Agapitus. My heart is troubled since your Greatness, so careful in observing fairness and so tenacious in friendship, has turned to this carelessness of forgetting me — so that, heedless of devotion, the blessings of a better age that have come through the advancement of your honors have been announced by r …