Letter 3014: VARIAE, BOOK 3, LETTER 14

XIV. KING THEODERIC TO AURIGENES, A VENERABLE MAN AND BISHOP. [1] Although we believe that in your judgment all crimes are displeasing, we are especially confident that you hold accursed whatever assails the affection of the marriage union. For with what spirit can that be received from men who profess continence which is condemned even by the abhorrence of laymen? Julianus, accordingly, has complained to us in a tearful petition that his wife, as well as his property, has been seized by your men through an unjust usurpation. Therefore, if you recognize that the suppliant's petition is true, and he who has been thus assailed cannot reasonably clear himself, cut back upon the author of the deed without any delay. For an evil, when it persists, is increased, and a correction hastened against a sin is a remedial good.

XIIII. AURIGENI VIRO VENERABILI EPISCOPO THEODERICUS REX. [1] Quamvis iudicio vestro credamus omnia facinora displicere, maxime a vobis confidimus exsecrandum quod matrimonii genialis impugnat affectum. quibus enim animis a continentibus accipitur, quod etiam laicorum detestatione damnatur? Iulianus itaque nobis lacrimabili aditione conquestus est uxorem suam vel res a vestris hominibus iniusta usurpatione pervasas. unde si veram petitionem supplicantis agnoscitis nec se rationabiliter pulsatus absolvit, in auctorem facti sine aliqua tarditate resecate. malum enim cum perseverat, augetur, et remediale bonum est in peccatum accelerata correctio.