Letter 10047: A man named Apollonius needs the kind of help that only someone with your standing and connections can provide.
To Leontius, former consul. He commends Apollonius. Gregory to Leontius, former consul. [...] your Brotherhood [i.e., your Fraternity] may be able to [...] let your Brotherhood extend its good office [...] of invitation, so that those who, God being favorable, are baptized there ought not to remain unconfirmed [literally, unsealed with the seal of confirmation]. [...]
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Latin / Greek Original
AD LEONTIUM EXCONSULEM.
Apolionium commendal.
bore pote-tis accedere ſraternitas vestra officium vi- B Gregorius Leontio exconsuli.
vitatio»is impendat, vt ji qui illic Deo propitio bap-
lizantur inconsignati non debeant remanere. :
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern gregory great retranslated v1.
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