Letter 11049: A young man has received the monastic habit at Misenum [a town near Naples] after being brought there from Sicily.

To Anthemius the subdeacon. Concerning a certain boy brought from Sicily to Misenum, where he had taken on the habit of a monk. Gregory to Anthemius, subdeacon of Campania. Gallus the shipmaster, the bearer of the present letter, is known to have made known to us, by a petition laid before us, asserting that he conducted a certain boy, coming from the regions of Sicily for the sake of prayer, to the regions of Campania, [...] he publicly professed with his own voice that he was free and bound to no condition of servitude. On whose account he complains that he was constrained by the public agents, who pressed the charge that he had presumed to carry off by stealth a slave of the public law from those regions. And he, after the losses inflicted upon him, has shown himself bound also by a bond to recall the same boy to those regions by whatever means he could. Whence, moved by the cause of piety, let your experience know that we have decided this: that he ought to recall to the regions of Panormus, where the matter is being conducted, that same chattel-servant, although he has now taken on the habit of a monk, and to hand him over to Fantinus our defender, so that he himself may carry out in a wholesome manner what ought to be done concerning him, according to the tenor of our instruction, of which the text will also be able to inform you. Therefore [...] effect be brought to execution, so that nothing may remain in dispute between the parties, whence after these things they might be wearied by a revived litigation.

AD ANTHEMIUM SUBDIACONUM. De puero quodam e Sicilia Misenum ducto, ubi mo- nachi habitum 8usceperat. Gregorius Anthemio 8ubdiacono Campanie. Lator prexsentium Gallus, nauclerus, oblala nobis petitione, noscitur intimasse, asserens puerum $8 quemdam de Sicilie partibus venicntem 1193 orationis gratia ad Campaniz partes perduxisse, D tyrolog. Rom., ad diem 13 Octobris. * Hec nullis in mss. invenimus, nisi quod initio libri duodecimi, ut moris est, premittitur mense Septembri (hoc enim mense incipiebat indictio), deinde subditur Gregorius Dominico, etc. EeisT. II. — * In Pratel. et nonnullis Mss., Mes- S8inati. Editi, Messenati. AL legendum Migsenati ex £0 conslat, tum quod ad Campanie partes perductus puer, illic in monaslerio, etc., tum quod ab Anthemio Campaniz rectore puerum in monasterio degentem nauclero tradi jubeat in Panormitanas partes redu- cendum. ———_—_— + culo, Jiberum 8e, nullique conditioni obnoxium publica A effectum exseculione perduci, ut nihil inter parites ' yoce professus est. Pro quo ab actionariis publicis se remeantem queritur esse constrictum impetentibus (ur Seryum juris publici ſurtim de illis partibus au- ſerre presumpserit. Qui, post illata sibi damna, cautione $e quoque ostendit obstrictum cumdem puerum ad partes illas quibus valeret viribus revo- care. Unde, pietalis causa permoti, hoc experientia tua nos deerevisse cognoscat, ut ad Panormitanas partes, ubi res agitur, ipsum mancipium , | cet jam monachi h:bitum sumpserit, debeat revocare, eum- que Fantino defensori nostro contradere, ut ipse quid de eo fieri debeat, secundum preceptionis nostrz $eriem, cujus et le quoqune textus poterit in- 'ſormare, Salubriter exsequatur. A latore ergo pree- remaneat, unde post hc Þ redivivo possint litigio fatigari. |