Letter 10059: **From:** Gregory I, Bishop of Rome
AD JOANNEM ET FORTUNATUM EPISCOPOS, ET ANTHEMIUN
SUBDIACONUM.
Gregorii homines ac possessiones commendat.
Gregorius Þ Joanni et Fortunato episcopis, et An-
themio subdiacono.
Ea que filjis nostris ultro nos decet impendere,
negare eis petentibus non debemus. Et ideo JOSS
quoniam filius noster gloriosus Gregorius expreſecto
possessiones, quas illic habet, vel homines $u0s ſra-
expreſectus.
Eersr, LIX. — * Hzc epist. cum duabus sequenti-
bus abest a Mss. complur.
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ternitati vesir2 a nobis studuit commendandos, A Dei illic opus minime celebretur, sed etiam pene pro
scriptis vos presentibus adhorlamur ut utilitatibus
eju3 salva ratione Cconcurrere et pos$es8iones ejus
aique homines tueri, sicut desiderat, debealis; nec
evs contra juStitiam a quibuslibet vexari aut patia-
mini pregravari. Sed id agite, ut tuitione vestra prae-
dicti filii nostri supplere praesentiam valeatis, quia
ita $e, Sicutl nostis, bene exhibuit cunctis, ut omnia
solatia habere mereatur.
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