Gregory the Great (Wisigothic) → destinatário desconhecido
Tradução moderna em inglês
Gregory to Victor and Columbus, bishops of Africa, in identical letters.
The more the order of the Church kept blamelessly fills our heart with joy, the more its disruption imposes the burden of sorrow, when the recklessness of depravity attempts to overthrow discipline, to dissolve what was once laudably established, and to presume things that ought rather to be severely punished. The complaint of the bearer of this letter, our brother and fellow bishop Crisconius, has reached us, reporting that without any fault on his part or any sentence of a council, churches anciently assigned to his diocese have been unreasonably seized by our brother and fellow bishop Valentio nearly fifteen years ago, and that he furthermore took the property of his predecessor to his own use — which is a grave thing to say. If the truth is as stated, we cannot say how perverse and how detestable this is, especially in one of religious profession. In this matter, therefore, since there must be neither leniency nor any delay, your fraternity must compel the aforesaid Valentio to restore without any excuse both the churches he seized and the property he took.
Texto latino / grego
AD VICTOREM ET COLUMBUM EPISCOPOS. V alentionem episcopum occupatas ex Crisconii paro- chia Kceclesias, necnon ablalas deſuncti parochic hujus episcopi res, Crisconio reslituere compellant. Gregorius Victori et Columbo episcopis Aſricz, a paribus. | Quanto cordi nostro Ilzlitiam Ecclesiz ordo incul- pabiliter custoditus infundit, tanto rescissus 91G [zdium doloris imponit, quod pravilatis temerilas in eversionem disciplinz teniat et quz Suut olim lauda- biliter statuta_ dissolvere, et quz fortius punienda prxsumere. Prsentium itaque porlitoris Crisconii fratris et coepiscopi nostri querela ad nos insinuante pervenit quod, nulla exigente culpa, vel concilii de- liniente sententia, Ecclesize ejus parochie antiquitus deputatze ® a Valentione ſfratre el coepiscopou nostro ante ſere quindecim annos siut irrationabiliter 0Ccu- patz, alque eum insuper res decessoris ipsius ad wum, quod dici grave esl, arbilrium abslulisse. uod $i ita veritas se habet, quam perversum, quamye Sit exsecrandum, przcipue ® religios0 pro- posito, dicere non valemus. Hac igitur in re, quia nec lenilas, nec aliqua debet esse dilatio, fraternila- in MiS8a utuntur, a graca voce x«pry, flexura. Lege Saus8aium Panopliz episc. lib. vn, c. 1, art. 4, Lampagos eosdem ſuisse cum calceis antiquis patri- ciis contendit Salmasius in Trebellium. Palricios hosce calceos decussalim adnecti consuevisse ait Isi- dorus, illos Hesychius cavum et proſundum calcea- mentum appellat, quod usque ad medias tibias ascen- derent. Rubenius, de Re vestiaria, lib. 1, c. 15, san- daliis vult Similes ſuisse campagos. Amalarius, lib. 1 de Eccles. officiis, c. 18 : Quia, inquit, usque ad pe- des Bedu perventt, disserendo de lineis veslibus, ut nosmeltpst absolvamus de 8andaliis, sive alio nomine campagts, qui 8upersunt in pedibus, -Ita legendum, non campobis ut editum est. Honorius Auguslod., mn Gemma aniimz, lib. 1, c. 210, de campigis Sel Sandaliis episcoporum : es!, inquit, genus calcea- D menti incisi, quo pes parlim tegitur, partim nudus cernilur. : d lia in Colbert. yet. et in tribus Vatie., scilicet rac. E. In Vatic. B, quem sequuntur Excusi, mense 0, EeisT, XX VIII [AL 45]. — * In tribus Vatie. et — Norman., ab Avalentione. In Vatic. B, a Va- io, fa licitus requiratis. Et si querela ejus manifesta c55e consliterit, ablatarum rerum et occupatarum paro- chiarum reslitutione dilectio vestra Sine Mora SUC- curri provideat, et ita omnia, vobis solatiantibus, cessante excusatione, juslitia favente, recipiat, ut nec hunc labor observationis afliciat, nec de ejus damuo aliquid lucri invasor acquirat. Accendat ergo vos zelus zquitatis, accendat justitiz rectitudo. © Ad custodiendam in cunctis antiquam ecclesiastici ordi- nis dispositionem, operam inslanter impendite, di- $trictos Sollicitosque vos inter culpas et innocentiam ' exhibete, quatenus et -jusLlitiam habentibus magna de-rectitudinis vestre <Sit zelo fiducia, et inquielis de ſuturo omais excedendi awmputetur-occasio 9,