Letter 2049: The bond of mutual love has compelled me to send a letter to Your Holiness, who is inseparable from me, for the sole...

Bishop Ruricius to Bishop Aprunculus. The disposition of our mutual love demanded that we send a letter to your holiness, who is undivided from us, for this reason alone, even if no suitable occasion presented itself. And so, through the man of my son Leontius, we have given these lines to your apostolate, by which, putting your welfare first, I inquire how well you may be faring, God favoring it, according to your wish, since you yourselves know that your safety is our gladness; hoping that, when the aforesaid man returns, you may render us, with the Divinity favorable, free of anxiety about your doings, you who see that we are anxious for your prosperity.

XXXXVIIII. APRUNCULO EPISCOPO RURICIUS EPISCOPUS. Exegit mutui amoris affectus ad indiuiduam mihi sanctitatem uestram sola ex causa litteras destinare, etiamsi non se occasio 4] Luc. 6, 88. Matth. 7, 2. 12] Psalm. 48, 17. 16] Psalm. 75, 6. 21] Matth. 19, 29. 23] Matth. 6, 19. 1 ascendit S 8 benefitia S 5 mensuram S remitietur S 10 nondinationibuB S descendet scripsi coli. lin. 15, discendit S, discedet v Kr., discedit Mommsenus 11 porcionem S 18 timueritis 11 15 discendit S 17 in om. S, add. Utdg . 20 frater carissime v 22 centuplo Luetjohann a tinea v, oatenea S ptimiscere S exterminum S 24 custo S est] finit add. S 28 ex] ea coni. Mommsenus distinari S + oportuna porrigeret. unde per hominem filii mei Leontii has ad apostolatum uestrum dedi, quibus sospitatione praelata, quam ex sententia deo fauente ualeatis, inquiro, quia ipsi nostis incolumitatem uestram nostram esse laetitiam, sperans, ut redeunte praefato nos reddatis de uestris actibus propitia diuinitate securos, quos uidetis esse (de) prosperitate sollicitos.