Letter 12019: **From:** Gregory I, Bishop of Rome

TO MAURENTIUS, MASTER OF SOLDIERS [magister militum]. He asks for twenty-four folding chairs. Gregory to Maurentius, master of soldiers. Let your Glory be informed that we have instructed Anthemius the subdeacon to take pains to send us some folding chairs. But if he should not find any already made, let him take up an artisan at his own place, so that the man may work in his own house, and may make at least twenty-four chairs of altogether good quality. And therefore, since they are altogether necessary to us, let your Glory see to it that this can be done. And if perchance you have already procured some, send them on to us. But also let Julianus, most distinguished man [vir clarissimus], the steward of your Excellency, or if anyone else should have any, take care to send them to us. Therefore let your Glory act, so that these things which we have written should by all means be procured by the diligence of your solicitude.

AD MAURENTIUM MACISTRUM MILITUM. _ Plectiles 8ellas viginti quatuor petit. Gregorius Manreiitio tmagistro militum. Cognoscat gloria vestra * mandasse nos Anthemio 8ubdiacono ut aliquant4s $elias plectiles nobis diri- C gere Student. Ant $i factas non Mmvenerit, ipsum apud 8e artificem toflat, ut in domo ipsins debeat laborare, et vel viginti quatuor sellas omnino bonas faeiat. Et ideo quia omnino nobis sunt neces$arie, gloria vestra ut hoc fieri pos$it provideat. Et $i forte yos jam aliquas conquisistis, nobis eas transmittite. Sed et Juliano viro clarissimo Þ majori excellentiz vestrz; aut si quis alter habuerit, eas nobis mittere procuret. Na ergo gloria vestra faciat, ut hexc que scripsimus sollicitudinis vestre debeant modis om- nibus jnslantia procurari.