Letter 5006: The reverence I owe your holy way of life and the affection I bear you personally have joined forces to compel this...
VI. LEONTIO ABBATI ENNODIVS.
Supra meritum meum summa circa me beneficii caelestis
adoleuit, dum qui poena dignus sum iustorum praemia consecutus
exulto. frustra delinquentes periculi mater desperatio
ad extrema praecipitat. in errore maximo constituti meo ad
spem solidam reparentur exemplo. nescio de quo opere mihi,
de qua innocentia epistolarum uestrarum fructus accesserit
et animam peccati ubertate locupletem caelestis boni melle
satiarit, nisi quia ille qui uulnera nostra suscepit et pro nobis
doluit mutata meritorum condicione quos flagellis dignos uiderit
castigat muneribus et uersa uice noxiorum animas dum
secundis replet, pudore meliorat. superni ergo secreti dignatione
confabulationis uestrae fruges elicui. uos de corporis mei
sanitate sollicitos ille reddidit, qui animae meae curam per
Y. 1 deetenatia B praebites B 2 conscius B parta
T ut videtur 3 orbanus B 4 ceptie T 6 rebus om. B
8 mihi BL V 9 ddne P, dominae B, dfie LT, donatione b
10 ostendere] finit add. B
VL 14 adolinit B 15 diiperatio LV, disaperatio B . 16 precipitat
B 17 solidam spem P (spem s. I.) b 19 animam Bb,
adimam LV, animam adunam T (animam e. 1. m, 2) T, ad unam P (al. a ι̃ a * 2.
I
m. alia) uberate B 21 conditione BLT 23 meliorat∗∗
ur eras.) L 25 aollicituB B
spiritales medicos ad statum indultae ualitudinis redire conpellit.
quae sit in me substantia membrorum, religiosae sollicitudinis
inuestigatione perquiritis, quorum status animae partem
neglegens toto mundi istius grauatur imperio. agite oratione
me talem fieri, qualem adseritis blandimentis, quia fuci
nescia propositi uestri claritudo quem bonum esse praedicat
ante tempus innocentiae adnuntiat mox futurum. fratribus meis
et conseruis, quos direxistis, quantum exhibere solacii potui
uoto potius quam re idoneus non negaui. superest ut accipientes
obsequia mea cum uniuerso cui praeestis concilio per dei omnipotentis
misericordiam coniurati deo pro paruitate mea precibus
insistatis, ut cui deest per actiones suas fiducia bonorum per
suffragia uestra contingat.
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Hilary, bishop of Rome, to our beloved brothers Leontius, Veranius, and Victorius, greetings.
Truly, as you have written, many disturbances have swept through the churches.
The excellent Julianus seems to get some good for his private affairs out of the general condition of things. Everything nowadays is full of taxes demanded and called in, and he too is vehemently dunned and indicted. Only it is a question not of arrears of rates and taxes, but of letters.
The man who brought me your second letter took off for Phoenicia.