Letter 2043: Thank you for the delicacies you sent.
XXXXIII. RURICII AD DOMNUM CONSTANTIUM.
De deliciis transmissis gratias ago et, quantum indicastis, tantum
me utrarumque auium suscepisse significo simulque etiam
per pueros ipsos, qui nobis haec detulerunt, tergus aprunum
me pietati tuae indico transmisisse, ut, dum nos uolatilia, quae
transmisisti, deliciamur, tu bipede de quadrupede facto satieris.
cuius tamen malo carne quam uita capiaris, quia, qui semper
de saecularibus cogitat et iugiter terrena meditatur, huic animanti
e scriptura diuina merito conparatur, quia de omnibus
animalibus solus homo sublimis creatus est et effectus, ut
auctorem suum semper caelo intentus aspiciat, non mundialia
opera solo incessabiliter defixus exerceat.
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Even though I am well aware that you are devoted to Bacchus, to music, to various performances, and even to choruses...
With you it began; with you it shall end.
Your subdeacon Vigilius has proven through experience the qualities that earned him your appointment.
SIDONIUS TO HIS DEAR CONSTANTIUS, GREETINGS
Gregory to Constantius, bishop of Milan.