Letter 3025: That gratitude should lose its footing among you is a possibility I cannot easily accept.

Ennodius to Eugenes. A man who is lame in loyalty cannot judge whether one's favor stands firm and on guard with you. Yet I wish a frequency of letters to be paid out as testimony of diligence, lest my mind, anxious about the well-being of one who loves, while its welfare rests in your health, be tossed about by suspicions. There, you have it, my lord: from this betrayal of my longing you may recognize the serenity of my heart. Stand by your part, and just as the prerogative of the duty imposed exalts me, so may the favor of the speech you have shown lift you up. Therefore, restoring the greeting that is owed, I beg that you make clear, under the cloud of whatever indication you please, what your longing accomplishes in me. Farewell.

XXV. EVGENETI ENNODIVS. In statione non esse apud uos gratiam potest qui fide claudus est aestimare: uolo tamen ad diligentiae testimonium prorogari frequentiam litterarum, ne animus de amantis prosperitate sollicitus, dum salus in ualitudine est, suspicionibus uentiletur. ecce habes, mi domine, unde serenitatem pectoris mei ex desiderii proditione cognoscas. adesto partibus tuis et sicut me imperati muneris praerogatiua sublimat, ita uos exhibiti gratia sermonis attollat. ergo salutem debendam restituens precor, ut quid promoueat in me desiderium tuum sub cuiuscumque significationis nube dilucides. uale.