Himerius antistes, filius tuus, notus mihi hactenus parum vultu, satis opinione, quae quidem in bonam partem porrigebatur, Lugdunum nuper a Tricassibus venit, quo loci mihi raptim ac breviter inspectus sanctum episcopum Lupum, facile principem pontificum Gallicanorum, suae tam professionis magistrum quam dignitatis auctorem, morum nobis imitatione restituit.
Your son, the priest Himerius, hitherto known to me all too little by sight but amply by reputation, which was indeed widespread and excellent, recently arrived at Lyon from Troyes, where I had a brief and hasty view of him and found that he recalled to my mind the saintly bishop Lupus, easily the first of our Gallic pontiffs, who had trained him for his profession and instituted him in his office; for your sons character was modelled on that great exemplar.
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