Letter 10047: A man named Apollonius needs the kind of help that only someone with your standing and connections can provide.
Gregory to Leontius, ex-consul.
A man named Apollonius needs the kind of help that only someone with your standing and connections can provide. I commend him to you.
His situation requires intervention at a level I cannot provide directly. What I can provide is the recommendation: Apollonius deserves support, his cause is just, and the help he needs is within your power to give.
I ask you to give it. Not as a favor to me, but as a matter of justice. The church recommends him; the rest is in your hands.
Gregory
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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. :
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