Letter 149: Though absent, you live always present in our memory.
Letter 149: Presents Received
[1] To Olympius
Although absent, you live always present in our memory, for not even if we greatly desired it, could we forget the sweetness of your disposition and your most sincere character, brother admirable in all things. Nothing can be more precious to me than my recollection of you, nothing except the prospect of embracing your revered head again. May God grant this happiness, and may we see you and hear the sweet sound of your voice! [2] You delighted us also by what you sent: we received them all. But you have saddened us more by the thought of the living comrade of whom we are deprived, although not by death. May the moment of good fortune come some day, and may God bring me this good fortune.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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