Letter 2037: Since your devotion departed, I feel myself cut in half.

Bishop Ruricius to his sweetest grandchildren Parthenius and Papianilla. Since your affection departed, I feel myself to be but half a man, because I recognize that the greatest part of me, that is, the inner man, has walked along with you while my body remains behind; yet in such a way that I behold you also remaining within my breast, which has stayed here. And so I greet your sweetness and admonish you to be mindful of my words, since it is certain that you can, with God directing, advance in good things according to the maxim of Solomon, if the counsels of your elders are held both in affection and in use. I pray that you may fare well.

XXXVII. RURICIUS EPIBCOPUS DULCISSIMIS NEPOTIBUS PARTHENIO BT PAPIANILLAE. Postquam pietas uestra discessit, dimidium esse me sentio, quia maximam mei partem, hoc est interiorem hominem residente corpore uobiscum ambulasse cognosco, ita tamen, quod et uos in pectore meo, quod hic remansit, manere conspicio. saluto itaque dulcedinem uestram et, ut uerborum meorum memores sitis, admoneo, quia certum est uos iuxta Salomonis sententiam posse in bonis deo dirigente proficere, si seniorum consilia et amori habeantur et usui. opto bene agatis.