Cassiodorus → Queen Hereuleva
Tradução moderna em inglês
Pope Gelasius to Queen Hereuleva [mother of Theodoric].
I have hastened to send Peter, the Church's defensor [legal advocate], to petition my lord, your most excellent son the King, on behalf of the sustenance of the poor, with my letters. And upon his arrival I did not neglect to greet your highness as well, earnestly begging that you deign, for the increase of your health and prosperity, to support the cause of the needy. Given on the fifth day before the Kalends of March.
Texto latino / grego
IIII. GELASIUS HERELEUVAE REGINAE. [1] Qui pro victu pauperum domino filio meo excellentissimo regi cum meis litteris supplicaret, Petrum ecclesiae defensorem dirigere properavi. quo veniente sublimitatem quoque tuam salutare non destiti, plurimum deprecans, ut pro vestrae salutis et prosperitatis augmentis egentium causas iuvare dignemini. data V. k. Mar.