Letter 8042: The reports of your illness have reached me, and I write with the urgency that love demands.
XXXXII. ENNODIVS AVIENO.
Aegritudinis uestrae indicium in meae contigit incrementum.
nam talis semper est usus et pene natura solliciti, ut uix
XXXX. 2 boethio BLVb 3 adoasat B 5 implsre L
a] ad T 7 inditio L, indictio B, iuditio P, iudicio b 9 oelestis
B 10 agnosoendi T\'
XXXXL 12 acapito L, agapio B 13 ferritur B 16 aesca
LV conloqui B tUum B 16 pinget B 18 linqueris
ris
B scripti L moeasitudinem B 20 cama B prae-
ditoa B 21 feoere L1
XXXXII. 24 Qgretudinis L\' mee 7x, mea BLPTVb contiget
B, contingit b 25 est semper LTV pene] pe B
credat transisse quod metuit et quae fecit redemptor noster
caelesti benignitate praeterita, quasi sint in occulis locata,
suspirat. sunt, domne Auiene, iam in me nihil de usura lucis
istius nisi uestra tantum post timorem dei remansit affectio:
quando melius mecum agitur, talis sum, qualem me in desperatione
dimisistis. superest, ut precibus uestris et peccatorum
remissio concedatur et si ita deo uidetur, pro uice remedii
obitus celer eueniat, ne amarius sit morte quod nino. domine
mi, salutationem debitam tota humilitate persoluens rogo, ut
per uos, quid in causa nostra de Roma nuntiatur, agnoscam.
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