Letter 12003: A dispute has arisen between Victor and another party whose resolution requires the authority of your provincial...
Quam gravis et auditu ipso intolerabilis Donatdeum*^ latoris praesentium, quise^
asserit fuisse diaconem, sit querella, data ab eo petitio, quae tenetur in subditis,
fratemitati*' vestrae faciet*" manifestum. Sed quia pervenit ad nos, quod pro corporali
fuisset*^ depositus, dilectio vestra suptili hoc inquisitione^ perquirat, et, si ita est, in
paenitentia retmdendus est^f, ut commissi flagitii*' vinculum* lacrimis possit absolvere ''^.
Si vero insons ab huius modi perpetratione clamerit, una cum primate^ concilii*' vel
aliis fratribus coepiscopisque nostris omnia quae petitio eius continet diligenti a vobis
examinatione quaerenda sunt. Et si querella eius veritate fulcitur, et in episcopo
ipsius Victore *, qui contra Deum et sacerdotale propositum" tantum committere nefas"
non metuit, canonici** vigoris ita districtio teneatur, ut ex definitioneP vestra, quam sit
iniquum quod fecit, intellegat et hic suo ordini reformetur^, quia satis perversum et
contra ecclesiasticam probatur' esse censuram, ut fmstra pro" quomndam voluntatibus
quis privetur, quem sua culpa vel facinus ab officiis^ quo fungitur gradu non deicit.
») Buflicit Jil; suKcepit q*]. *) nec q3. ") ad q1. beati om. 111. ^) tranniniMC q1.
XII, 3 in Htulo: Numidiae q*3. ») ito RI.qI; donat et ras. 112; Donadeum q*1.q3; Donatdei,
tU videtur, q*2.3. se om. q*1. c) frateniitato Ji 1 ; fraternitatis q1. ^) faciat q1. •) /tic
1) Cf. MaUh. 6, 19. 2) De Hilaro cf. ep. I, 73 n. 2. 3) Cf. ep. I, 26 n. 6.
XII, 3 una, ut ridetur, cum ep. praeced., ned per alium latorem transmissa. — De Colutnbo cf.
ep. II, 46 n. 1) De huius modi nominihus cf, ep. VII, 32 n. 1. 2) De lapgis cf. ep. V, 6 n. 2. V, 18 n. 1.
IX, 147 p, 146 n. 1. 3) De primatibtis cf. ep. I, 72 n. 2. V,3 n.3. 4) Idem, ut videtur, secundum
ep. XII, 8 (quam cf.) primatus locum in Numidia tenuU mense Martio huius qumtae indictionis.
MENSE OCTOBRI INDICTIONE V.
MENSE NOVEMBRI INDICTIONE V.
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