Letter 6: It is beyond doubt that Your Magnificence, who has ordered the laws of the Roman emperors to be observed in human...
VI.
GELASIUS THEODERICO REGI.
[1] Certum est magnificentiam vestram leges Romanorum principum, quas in negotiis hominum custodiendas esse praecepit, multo magis circa reverentiam beati Petri apostoli pro suae felicitatis augmento velle servari.
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