Letter 8007: Among holy consciences, no one denies what is owed to love.

VII. Ennodius to Senarius. Among holy consciences, his foremost preoccupation with favor does not deny what is owed to charity, nor does the hall of devout love banish its fervor. He gives testimony to a solid affection who does not bury it in forgetfulness amid hindrances. Commend to me in writing those heights of yours, which, importunate as I am, I have earned by my prayer: the safekeeping of our communion is an honor to high offices. Greeting you, therefore, most obediently with these words, I confine my letters within brevity, knowing that lengthy ones can be shrunk from, and bringing it about that you render thanks on my behalf to the Lord, who has wiped away the annoyance which I dreaded before you could even come to learn of it.

VII. SENARIO ENNODIVS. Apud sanctas conscientias non negat cariteti debita. sua gratiae principalis occupatio nec eliminat pii amoris aula feruorem. testimonium dat solidae adfectioni qui eam inter inpedimenta obliuione non obruit. commendate mihi scriptione culmina uestra, quae uoto inportunus emerui: custodia communionis honor est dignitatum. his ergo obsequentissime salutans epistolas breuitate constringo, sciens posse productas horreri, faciens ut pro me domino gratias referatis, qui molestiam quam perteli, antequam eam discere potuissetis, abstersit.