Letter 12012: Brothers, the accusations that have been laid against Crescentius, your primate, are of a gravity that cannot be...

Gregory the Great (Wisigothic)Unknown|c. 602 AD|Pope Gregory the Great
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Sicut laudabilc discretumque est reverentiam et honorem debitum exhibere*
prioribus, ita rectitudinis et Dei timoris est, si qua in eos^ corrcctionis indigent, nulla
dissimulatione postponere, ne totum, quod absit, corpus incipiat morbus invadere, si
languor non fuerit curatus in capite. Ante multum siquidem temporis quaedam ad
nos® de fratre nostro Crementio primate vestro^ perlata sunt^, quae cor nostrum non
modico maerore transfigerent ; sed premcntibus diversis tribulationibus et maxime
circumsaevientibus * hostibus ea nobis non fuit spatium requirendi. Et quoniam ita
sunt gravia, ut transire indiscussa nullo modo debeant, fratemitatem vestram his horta-

1) servaiiti RLq.q*. ™) relagat R2. °) Beuem q2. o) Hecuta (pro se cuucta) q1. p) ea
om. R2, 4) ipse q*. ') ox u. a. umuiu q*2.3. perveuiat RJ. deliuqueritis R2.

XII, 12 in tUulo: Vizachii oni. Rl; Wizautii R* 1. ») exhiberi RI.qI. *») eis Rl. c) ad
noB om. R2. ^) vrm Rl. ^) circumvenieutibus Rl. 0 affectibus Rl. B) buq add. Rl.
*>) indicare q* 1. *) et om. q*2.3.q2. ^) si oni. RI.qI. l) si om. RI.qJ.q*. ") et
add. Rl.Ql.Q*. ") non q*2.3.q2. ") torpor, lU videtur, R2. P) cuiusdam qJ.2. i) sit
om. q2. ') quolibet RJ. ^) n q*2.3. q2. t) discutiendis R1.q1.2.q*. ») secundum taliter Rl.
▼) accite Rl. ^) causa q*1.

XII, J2. De CremefUio vel Clemefitio cf. ep. IX, 24 n. J. J) I)e causa Crementii ah imperatore
ad papam ddata cf. ep. IX, 24. 27.

GREGORn I. REGISTRI

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