Letter to Eucherius of Lyon
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Greeting
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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.
Chapter 1
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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.