Letter 6014: I know that my silences cry out to you as loudly as any letter, and that nothing happens between us that goes unnoticed.

14. Ennodius to Avitus. I know that my silences cry out before you, and that nothing happens which is not grasped by your secret interpretation; yet I have not ceased from writing, nor have I, by any contrived ingenuity, withdrawn from judgment the son of Sabinus, a man of exalted memory, who, having endured acts of violence upon his little estate, is up to now said to have devoted his effort to dealings with the barbarians. Believe me, he will present himself untroubled at the inquiry, and he will come ready to enter upon your adjudication without any dread. Speaking reverence to you, my lord, having greeted you, I pray that you may hold my person in high regard, supporting it by the recollection of the affection long since implanted in you.

XIIII. AVITO ENNODIVS. Scio mea apud uos clamare silentia nec quicquam fieri quod non secreta interpretatione teneatur, ego tamen ab scriptione non destiti nec sublimis memoriae uiri Sabini- filium fabricato ingenio a iudicatione subtraxi, qui uiolentias in agello suo perpessus hactenus operam. dicitur nauasse. cum barbaris. credite mihi, aderit securus examini et disceptationem uestram sine aliqua formidine ueniet ingressurus. domine mi salutati reuerentiam dicens precor, ut personam meam tanti habeatis insitae dudum affectionis recordatione fulcire.