Letter 12017: I notice that your letters have become less frequent, and I miss them.
Gregory to Maurilius, ex-prefect.
I notice that your letters have become less frequent, and I miss them. Write more often.
I say this not as a demand but as a genuine expression of the friendship I feel toward you. Men who have held significant positions and who think carefully about the world — about its governance, its problems, its possibilities — are precisely the people whose company I find valuable.
You have seen much. You have governed much. Your perspective on what you have seen and done is interesting to me. Share it more often.
Your friend,
Gregory
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Latin / Greek Original
AD MAURILIONEM EXPREFECTUM.
Amice hortatur ut ad se scribat 8@pius.
Gregorius Maurilioni expreſecto.
Valde miramur quod nos, diversis de Sicilia venien-
libus, gloria vesira incolumitatis suz nuntio rele-
vare postponit. Et utram oblivioni charitatis, an
oeeupationi debeat reputari, neseimus. Et ideo $a-
lutantes paternz charitatis aſſectu, petimus ut, quo-
lies 8cribendi se occasio dederit, de vestra nos 8alute,
el qualiter circa vos agatur, refovete, quatenus dum
EersT. XVIL. Al. 19.
Eersr. X Vill [Al.21].—* Lib. 1x, indict. 2, epist; 6,
loquitur sanctus Gregorius de Enpaterio magistro mi-
lum in Sardinia. [dem videtur esse ac Eupator ejus-
dem insulze dux.
» In Remig., Waldrichilla. In Vatic. A. Baldarith.
la San- Vict. Wandaricilla. Prizter hos Codices uullus
bane episl. exhibet. | |
F.ersr. XIX [Al. 23]- — * Remig. et Victor., scri-
pit2.0 nos. Prater hos Cod. et Vatic. A, nullus ex
A secundum desiderium nos!rum de prosperitale ve-
stra 1zti fuerimns effecti, Redemptori nostro pro
vobis agere gratias valeamus. Omnipotens Deus Mhi-
sericordix 8uz vos gratia tyeatur, et ab oniiil ad-
versilale $ervet illesos atque custodiat-
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