Letter 1085: Gregory to Gennadius, patrician and commander in Africa.
AD GENNADIUM PATRICIUM AFRICE.
Droculſum de hostibus reversum commendat.
Gregvorins Gennadio patricio Africz.
Droculſus presentium portitor * de hostibus ad
rempublicam veniens, opinionis vestre, que longe
lateque diſſusa est, bono succensus, ad excellentia
epiSCopo gravem $C injustitiam pertulisse, et accepto B yestrz obsequia summo desiderio ſestinavit occur-
premio Donalistas in Ecclesiis fuisse prepositos, rere. Et quoniam nosira $e apud yos poscit epistola
eumque inter alia non leve aliud facinus, quod dici commendari , paterna dulcedine salutantes, petimus
neſas est, commisisse commemorant. Propterea ex=- yt eum, sicut Deus vobis in cor miserit ac ulile ſue-
perienize tuz prosentis precepli pagina duximus ” rit, excellentia vestra ordinare dignetur, quatenus
injungendum, quatenus przſatum episcopum idonex hona quz de vobis etiam positus adbuec inter hostes
$alisſactioni commiltere non omitlas, tnaque instan- audivit, in $e valeat experiri, et excellentie vestire
lia in locis jillis © fiat ex more concilium, et omnia ejus quoque ante omnipotentis Dei oculos inter cx-
zecundum oblatz petitionis textum canonice coram teras merces accreseat.
Lamigia Numidiz civilas ex Hlolstenio, de patriar-
chatu Romano, pag. 68. Gussanv. In nolitia Numidie
quam ediiit Sirmondus, tom. 1, num. 436, edit. n0+
va, duo recensentur episcopatus hujus ſere nominis,
Scilicet Lammigzizensis, et Lamiggigensis. Consule
notam 4101 nostri Theod. Ruinart. in Histor. Vandal.
persecul.
Innumera prostant eorum execupla, qui sine dimiss0- Epeisr. LXXXV (Al. 44 lib. x). — * Quid hic pe
riis episcopi $uli nalalis tonsurati Sunt a non 8uis, - holes intelligendum sit, inquirunut Alteserra et Gus-
imo a non episcopis. Vide in 6, de tempore ordinat., Sganvillzxus. Hostis, inquit Alteserra, idem sonat quod
e. 1, 5, 4, et cone. Trid., sess. 23, can. 9 et 40, de exercitus. Neque censet Droculſum in Romanorum
reform. In quibns locis adveriet lector episzcopum Ccxercitu militasse, ct ab exercitu reversum, G*nna-
8011 nalalis, vel ep Scopum doumicilii, vel episcopum - dium patricium adiisse. Non assentitur Gussauv. in
beneficii, vel quosdam alios potuisse aul majores his maxime verbis hzr-ns : de hostibus ad rempub,
ordines aliquando, aut minores Conlſerre, nedum wenis; et in islis: positus adhuc inter hostes. Cerie
lonsSuram.. GUSSANY. hostis exercitum s#pe Signilical, ut ex prolatis ab
Eeisr. LXXXIV (AL. 82). — ®* Suspectus mihi utroque testimoniis liquet. At hostes ide $onare,
valde est iste litulus, licet in omnibus mss. Codd. non ita rnobis constat. Quod ail hune locum spectat,
ita legatur, Sicut et in Editis. Videtur legendum char- nltro in Gussanvillei sententiam imus. Droculſus, .
lalariv, pro monacho, quia idem ipse est Hilarius de D vel Droctulſus, quod habetur in Vatic. A, Langobar-
quo loquitur sanctus Gregorius epist. 73 et 7o prie- © duserat, non Romanus, ut ex nominesalis inteiligitur.
cedenl.bus, et 55 libri sequentis. Gussanv. Quid vobþ- At a Langobardis deficiens ad Romanorum partes,
Slat eum +jmul monachum ſuisse et chartularium? a $ancto Gregorio lilteras commendatitias ad Genua-
Certe nullis in Mss. variat hic titulus. Verum invidit
diuin petierat. Gregorio ad rempublicam venire, idem
monachis Gussauvilleus honorem legationis se&dis
est ac reipublicz partes scctari, ut lib. v, epist. 40,
aposlolice Hilaro monacho collatum, ut censel Alte- ad Mauricium Aug. : Quia toto corde venire ad rempu-
berra. Virum ductissimum audiamus, ad hanc epist. :
blicam paratus ſuit. Si in Romanorum excrcitu mili-
Hila-io monacho vices $uas mandat, ut eo instante lasset Droculfus, quid magnum foret ipsum multa de
concilium celebrelur..... multis posl s@culis ſrater Pe= Geninadio bona ingudiisse ? At vero Gennadii famam
trus de Castro noro et hadulphus monachi, Cistercien-
vel inter ho-tes percrebvisse maximum erat. Hoc 8-
8s ordinis, legationem 8uscepere adrersus Albigenses guilicat sanctus Gregorius, cum alt; bona qua! de vo-
hzreticos, etc. Quot similia exempla proferre in me-
bis etiam positus adhuc inter hostes et exteros audivis
dium liceret, $i vacarel !
lizec epistola desideratur in Mss. anglie., Norin. el
Juznam em Sint describit Balsamo ad conc. tv,
can, 11, et ad cone. vi, can. 17, ubi etiam
notat privilegium Constantinopolitani episcopi et
Carthaginensis, qui quoslibet clericos alieni juris
admittebant (in Aſric., can. 22, idem de Carthagi-
nensi episcopo Privilegium asseritur) sine dimis<0-
iis, Tape yYopny TOV x£p0TovnouvtwY wTovg. Observare
libet ex usu hodierno requiri dimisscrias episcopi $0li
natalis ; at ex velerum canonum, ut videtur, pre-
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