Letter 3: Your Magnificence understands that I am bound by the demands of my priestly office to come before your clemency —...
III.
[GELASIUS] THEODERICO REGI.
[1] Magnificentia vestra perpendit sacerdotalis me officii necessitate constringi, ut apud clementiam vestram, quam constat omnia librare sapienter, intercessor accedam.
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