Letter 6028: Those whom fortune favors often attract the attention of those who seek to share in their success.

Those to whom good fortune and power are granted by God's ordinance are accustomed to console the humble with the service of letters and to share their prosperity by the publication of written pages. I have for a long time awaited being relieved by these offices, but, since you have failed to act, I judged it necessary not to keep silent, so that what affection does not demand, importunity may earn, in accordance with the Gospel reading. My lord, offering you a most full greeting, I beg that you cherish me, your old devotee, with that affection which you once promised, and that you make me acquainted with your prosperity by the dispatch of your written pages.

XXVIII. ENNODIVS GVDILEVO. Solent quibus felicitas et potentia deo ordinante conceditur humiles consolari officio litterarum et prospera sua paginarum promulgatione partiri. ego multo tempore ut his subleuarer muniis expectaui, sed cessantibus uobis necessarium credidi non tacere, ut quod amor non exigit iuxta euangelicam lectionem mereatur inportunitas. domine mi, salutationem plenissimam dicens quaeso, ut me antiquum cultorem uestrum illo foueatis quo olim promisistis affectu et prospera uestra paginarum me faciatis directione cognoscere. XXVII. 3 xiram (u ex n corr.) L 4 pranitate B1 altissimis Tl 5 fideles 6, fidelie BLTV extitistis (stis in ras.) L H 7 praecandam B (diti-nincatis om. B add. corr. in mg.) 8 consolatione T 11 m T, mihi BLVb praesentans Bb, praestans LTV 13 quatinus T XXVIII. 17 hnmilis B 18 Bubleuaretnr T\' 19 exspectaui LV 20 Iaectionem L1 21 merai pportunitas T1 m T, mihi BLVb 22 anticom B 23 affectoi L 21 dilectioae T1