6 surviving letters between Agapitus and Ennodius of Pavia, spanning 497-520 AD.
I believed that once Your Greatness was devoted to the public good and your leisure had been transformed into glory...
My heart is troubled since your Greatness, so careful in observing fairness and so tenacious in friendship, has...
A reply would rightly be owed to multiple previous letters.
Sins resist the fulfillment of our desires — that is the simple truth of our condition.
If things had gone as I wished, this letter would carry a different message.
The grief of those who truly love is inconsolable by ordinary means.