Letter 6017: The distinguished lord Senarius commends himself to your attention through this letter, and I add my own endorsement...
XVII. ENNODIUS TO BISHOP MARCELLINUS.
The esteem of the magnificent man, the lord Stephanio, your son, brings it about that I come before your Beatitude as one to be read, and by whose kindness the affection of the journey [the affection that prompts this correspondence across the distance] sustains no losses; nor does it suffer that what presence cannot accomplish should go unmade, but it compensates by speech. Presenting therefore to your Apostleship the services owed to it through this man, I ask that you raise me up by the support of your prayers, so that, grafted into your venerable conscience, I may deserve to rejoice in every fruit of your esteem, since I do not doubt that your crown will answer to my confidence.
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Latin / Greek Original
XVII. ENNODIVS MARCELLINO EPISCOPO.
Magnifici uiri domni Stephanioni filii uestri facit dignatio,
ut beatitudini uestrae legendus occurram, cuius beneficio itineris
caritas detrimenta. non patitur et quod praesentia non ualet
sermone conpensat. his ergo seruitia apostolatui uestro debita
repraesentans quaero, ut me orationum suffragio subleuetis,
quatenus insertus uenerabili conscientiae de omni merear dignationis
uestrae fruge gratulari, quia fiduciae meae coronam
uestram non ambigo responsuram.
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- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
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