Letter to Eucherius of Lyon (complete)
Latin text: PL 50 (Latin text: Migne, Patrologia Latina, vol. 50, digitized by Open Greek and Latin (patrologia_latina-dev, University of Leipzig), CC BY-SA 4.0).English: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), public domain (CC0).
Greeting
0PL 50
Domino beatissimo, merito suscepto et suscipiendo et in Christo devinctissimo papæ Eucherio episcopo Hilarius episcopus.
To the most blessed lord, deservedly welcomed and to be welcomed, and most closely bound to me in Christ, Pope Eucherius the bishop, Hilary the bishop.
Notes and citation
Summary: Hilary of Arles greets Eucherius, bishop of Lyons.
- "Pope" (papa) is the ordinary title of honour for a bishop in fifth-century Gaul, not a reference to the bishop of Rome.
Cite (SBL): Hilary of Arles, Ep. Euch. inscr. (PL 50; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/hilary-arles-epistula-eucherium/0). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of the staged edition (corrections logged). No public-domain English translation exists and no FOTC volume covers this work, so each batch was re-read against the Latin.
Chapter 1
1PL 50
Cum me libellos tuos mecum relaturum præcedentibus litteris indicassem, instantiam et exactionem pueri quem miseras lentare nullatenus potui. Emisi itaque florulenta beatitudinis tuæ opera, non parum anxius ne necdum descripta tam jugiter, tam graviter, ruentibus imbribus labefactarentur. Percurri ea semel tantum, universa miratus. Concedat Dominus ut speciosa hæc in Christo Instructionum nostrarum gloriae tuæ opera, te in paginis tuis duce, aliquando percenseam. Hoc unum precor, ne me diu his Instructionibus fraudari feras; sed unum me de juvenibus tuis, quorum hæc eruditioni ordinasti, habens, eo instantius habere me hæc velis, quo me magis juventutis retia premunt. Memorem te mei Dominus ad profectum Ecclesiæ suæ diu servet, beatissime papa.
Although in my earlier letter I had said that I would bring your little books back with me, I could in no way hold off the insistent demand of the servant you had sent. So I have sent back your Beatitude's flowery works, not a little anxious that, not yet copied out, they might be damaged by rains pouring down so constantly and so heavily. I have run through them only once, admiring everything. May the Lord grant that some day, with you as guide in your own pages, I may go carefully through these beautiful works in Christ of your glory, the Instructions of ours. This one thing I pray: do not allow me to be long deprived of these Instructions. Rather, count me as one of your young men, for whose education you arranged them, and want me to have them all the more urgently as the nets of youth press me the harder. May the Lord keep you long mindful of me, for the advance of his Church, most blessed pope.
Notes and citation
Summary: Hilary returns Eucherius's books, praises them, and asks to receive the Instructions again soon, counting himself among the young men they were written for.
- The Instructions are Eucherius's Instructiones, written for the education of his sons; "of ours" (nostrarum) is as printed, perhaps a slip for "yours".
- "Hold off" renders lentare, an unusual verb (literally "bend, slow down"); the sense is clear from the context.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip (c for e); OCR slip (jn for ju) and two words run together): juvcnibus → juvenibus; jnventutis retiapremunt → juventutis retia premunt.
Cite (SBL): Hilary of Arles, Ep. Euch. 1 (PL 50; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/hilary-arles-epistula-eucherium/1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
Permanent link: https://sophiascriptura.com/p/hilary-arles-epistula-eucherium/1
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of the staged edition (corrections logged). No public-domain English translation exists and no FOTC volume covers this work, so each batch was re-read against the Latin.