Letter 7010: Ad Magnulfum fratrem Lupi

To Magnulf, Brother of Lupus How quickly fame flies, stirred on swift wings, and fills every place with the acts it has multiplied! For while the Rhine is near you and the Loire is near me, here, Magnulf, you please, worthy and great in your honor. Thus the trumpet of Sigismund's herald ran out, so that your good qualities are known in the country all around. Still, what the letter can barely mark in brief words — not because it sings of everything, nor because it wishes to be silent: in the law-court above all, powerful in your flowing delivery, you govern so well that you restore ancient deeds with new ones. In the duties of a just cultivator's plow, the people harvest their prayers from the seed of your justice. No one lacks his own possessions; no one lies down upon another's: so you arrange it that the people cannot be guilty. Your diligent care brings the gifts of well-being to all the rest, and the labor of one becomes the peace of many. Equal and harmonious, so that you are called by all, kindly one — judge by the laws on one side, parent by goodness on the other. Forgive me for these few words, since the bearer presses me: for the brother of Lupus, the subject demands ample speech. May the Lord so grant that by your merits you may match him whom I equally cherish with the love of my heart.

X Ad Magnulfum fratrem Lupi Quam cito fama volat pernicibus excita pinnis et loca cuncta suis actibus aucta replet! nam tibi cum Rhenus, mihi sit Liger ecce propinquus, hic, Magnulfe, decens, magnus honore places. sic tuba praeconis Sigimundi missa cucurrit, ut tua diffuso sint bona nota loco. quod tamen in brevibus vix signat epistula verbis: non quia cuncta canit, nec reticere cupit. iuredico in primis pollens torrente relatu sic regis, ut revoces facta vetusta novis, cuius in officiis aequi cultoris aratro semine iustitiae plebs sua vota metit. nemo caret propriis, alienis nemo recumbit: sic facis ut populum non vacet esse reum. sollicitudo tua reliquis fert dona salutis, et labor unius fit populosa quies. aequalis concors ut ab omnibus, alme, voceris, legibus hinc iudex, hinc bonitate parens. da paucis veniam, quoniam mihi portitor instat: nam de fratre Lupi res monet ampla loqui. sic tribuat dominus, meritis reparetis ut illum, quem pariter tecum cordis amore colo.