5 surviving letters between Ennodius of Pavia and Olybrius, spanning 495-513 AD.
No one among the wise doubts that a sacred promise must be kept, and that a friendship wedded to fertile kindling...
While you speak of honeycombs and compose the honey of a liquid element with the nectar of eloquence through waxen...
As a certain towering authority on eloquence has observed, the true art of letter-writing lies in a studied...
**From:** Ennodius, deacon of Milan
Desire for your letters has made me write first — a reversal I accept without complaint.