Letter 16: I want to report on the mission you entrusted to me, which I have now completed and which had, I think, a reasonable...
Ennodii ad Symmachum papam.
>2. Victo sckismate pontifici se recotnmendat.
Eunodius papae.
Coelestis utilitatem sequacium cura disponit^ inauspicata bene
de Deo merentibus dona tribuuntur. Ingerit supema dispensatio
etiam quod supplicare humanitas non praesumit. Agnoverunt ad-
versarii sedis vestrae, quo propugnante vincantur; quod proxime de
Aquilejensi*) Redemptor noster persona reseravit.* . Et ideo inter
excellentia mimerum divinorum peto, ut mei corona vestra memi-
nisse non abnuat. Invitat euim ad famulandum plurimos, qui quam-
vis longe positum diligit obsequentem. Vale.
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