Letter 17: HE ENCOURAGES HIM TO WRITE THE LIFE OF SAINT AMATOR
EPISTOLA AD STEPHANUM ABBATEM
(Ex Bolland., prima die Maii.)
HUNC HORTATUR UT VITAM SANCTI AMATORIS CONSCRIBAT.
Dilectissimo atque amantissimo et interno mihi C quidam autem numeris se rhythmisve ac cantibus
vinculo choritatis connexo Stephano presbylero ,
Aunarius gratia Dei episcopus, in Domino z#ternam
salulem.
Tuz nobis doctrine multis jam experimentis com-
probata prudentia compulit nos, quamdam tuis
humeris imperiosam ssuperponere sareinulam; ed
eam que tibi non sit oneris, sed honoris; nec que.
deorsum iniquo pondere premat, sed que potius
celum usque sustollat. Cognitum 1ibi est, charissime
ſrater, et quz sit humanarum mentium diversitas,
et quemadmoduia in sstudia contraria non solum
inane vulgus, verum eliam universa Scindatur nobi-
litas. Et quidam quidem prosaico oblectantur sylo,
versuun delectlari faientur. Ergo, ut omnium votis
occurrerem , ct nullus 8uo desiderio ſraudaretur ,
placuit mihi ut vitas beatissimorum conſessorum
quasdam pede libero describeres, quasdam vero
lege metrica in:peditas digereres : ob quam rem
obsecro unitam mihi tuz dilectionis amicitiam, ut
beatissimi Germa!j episcopi vilam in versuum qua-
litatem, commulare non desistas ; sancti vero Ama-
toris prosaica modulatione. describas; ut sectatores
apostolics praxdicaiionis effecti, omnibus omnia
eſliciamur, et nulli quidquam debeamus, nisi ut
invicem diligamus. Individuam mili charitatem ve-
sIram divina custodiat pietas, venerabilis ſrater.
STEPHANI ABBATIS
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