Letter 2050: Trusting in the most sincere love with which you honor me in the Lord — not for my merits but from the goodness of...
Bishop Ruricius sends greeting to Ceraunia. Confident and untroubled because of that most sincere affection with which you deign to honor us in the Lord -- according to the kindness of your spirit, not according to our merits -- I have directed these lines to your reverence, in which, while wishing you abundant well-being in the Lord and our God, I particularly ask that, if it is possible, you deign to grant us without delay those things which I expressed in word through your servant Amandus, since this matter both can relieve us and can bring you no loss -- which I shall reckon as a very great favor. In turn, in whatever you may command or use shall require, I shall strive to repay the obligation with reciprocal services.
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Latin / Greek Original
L. RURICIUS EPISCOPUS CERAUNIAE SALUTEM.
De sincerissima, qua nos pro benignitate animi tui, non pro
nostris meritis dignaris excolere in domino, caritate confidens
securus has ad uenerationem tuam direxi, quibus in domino
ac deo nostro salutem uberem dicens specialiter rogo, ut ea,
quae per seruum uestrum Amandum uerbo speraui, si possibile
est, nobis sine dilatione praestare dignemini, quia haec
res et nos releuare potest et uobis nullum potest adferre
dispendium, quod ego pro beneficio maximo conputabo. iterum,
in quo iusseritis uel usus exegerit, uicem reciprocis obsequiis
repensare contendam.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern ruricius limoges retranslated v1.
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