Letter 10040: Gregory to Fortunatus, bishop of Naples.
AD FORTUNATUM NEAPOLITANUM EPISCOPUM.
A pueris Petrum de tentatione 8celeris accusantibus
O_ accuratius exigat, Petro ips0 id postu-
inle.
Gregorius Fortunalo episcopo Neapolitano.
Valde nos vestra mirpri fecit ſraternitas ut causam
clerici $uj aul noluisset, aut non assurgeret deſinire.
Petrus itaque przsentium portitor ad mos veniens,
guestus est pueros a quibus de tentatione sceleris
ſalso se agserit criminatuw, LQ79 non ut oportuit
ess8 discuss0s, 8ed lantummode verbo tenus inquisi-
los, * et sibi propter hoc solum, ne yobiscum proce.
dere audeat, interdictum. Aut enim vera fuere que
dicta sunt, et-juxla cause qualitatem canonice ſuit
coerctioni subdendus ; aut ſalsa, et diu non debuit in
crimine remanere. Quia et ratio indicit, et hic pro
suj puriſicatione Þ sollicitus quz adversum se dicta
sunt apostolicam sedem adiit, et juxta examinatione
ſinixi perquirit, necesse est ut una cum Anthemio
Subdiacono nostro $ubtili ac districta discussione a
pueris illis veritatem exigere debeatis. Et si pre-
dictus portitor attenlati facinoris reus esse paluerit,
canonica modis omnibus ultione plectatur. Si vero
insons ſuerit declaratus, celeri absolutione respiret,
* et. yobiscum habeat procedendi licentiam, quia
sicut reis competens exercenda vindicta est, jta
innocentibus non est absolutio differenda. Sic ergo
buic cause $0llicite ſraternitas veslra finem $tudeat
{ Excusi : kc ipsa que viderunt Alex. vementes d:-
Terunt ; quod parva un,
£ In solis recent. Ed. sic epistola clauditur : Mense
Febr., indict. 3. Adversantur alii Codices tum exa-
rFali tum excusi.
EpisT. XL [Al. 251, — * Omitlitur propter in Norm.
et Valic. A.
» In Rhem, et Norm., sollicita que adversum 5e
prehensionem incurrere.
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