Letter 13030: **From:** Gregory I, Bishop of Rome
AD DEUSDEDIT MEDIOLANENSEM EPISCOPUM.
Theodorum cum Deſensore ad Venantium mittal, de
T heodori expostulationibus inquisiturum.
Gregorius Deusdedit episcopo Mediolanensi.
Fraier et coepiscopus noster Theodorus multa
queritur $e contra justitiam atque promissionem
© Hoc - premittitur in tribus .Vatic. et duobus D gnitudine, vel miraculis que operatus erat, neque r14-
Colbert.
Eersr. XXVII [Al. 35], — * Quid honor geniusque
episcoporum poslulet, non semel exprimit vir san-
ciissimus. Quatuor hic commemorat : studium erga
Ececlesias, paternz vigilantiz curam erga filios, mo-
nasleriorum s0llicitudinem, oppressorum et paupe-
rum tuitionem. In epist. 26, Anthemio, easdem fere
dotes episcopo altribuit, in utraque torporem desi-
diamque exagitat. Aucet. Vide $similem loquendi
um, Supra, epist. 25.
Act. : Expostularunt cum illo... singulari dispositione
accidit illum (Petrum) reprehendi, ut hi discant.,. Vi-
de autem quam alienus 8it a fastu ef vane gloria. In-
cipiens enim Petrus exposuil illis per ordinem, etc.
I , in homil. de ferendis reprehensjonibus, exem-
plum affert Moysis a socero homine barbaro re-
Pprebensi. Non inflabatur, inquit, vel principatus ma-
bore suſſundebatur quod tot S mren tigque subdilis
corrigeretur; ed considerabat quod licet magna a 8
8igna fierent, humane@ lamen esset particeps nature ,
quam non rar multa latent, atque ideo cum mansuetu-
dine consilium 8uscepit. Ext nunc videre aliquos, eic.
UGET. ;
Eersr. XXVIII [Al. 36]. — * Gratianus, contrisla-
tionis su@t ſugam quaerat auzilium. Favent huic lect.
Colbert. et Reg. |
bd In eodem Cod. Colbert. , mense Maio, indi-t. 6.
At paulo antea, ibid., et in alio Colbert., sicut el in
mox laud. ., legitur mense Aprili, indict, 6.
Eeisr. XXIX [Al. 28]. — * Sje antique Editiones
et Mss. Codd. Male in aliis : Philippo episcopo. Gus-
SANV.,
Eeist. XXX [| Al. 37]. — ©* In tribus Vatic. huic
episl, przſigitur mense Aprili, indict. 6,
EPISTOLARUM LIB, XHI. — INDICT. VI. — EPIST. XXX.
tu» sanclitatis perpeli, quz nos facile non duximus A tur coli, et exsullet terra (Pzal. xcy, 11), et de ve-
credenda. Sed quia hec relinquere sine inquisitione
non pos8umus, fratri et coepiscopo nostro Venantio
ejus causam deputavimus ventilandam , ut subliliter
jpse Cognoscal , nobisque renuntiet. Tua itaque fra-
ternitas eumdem episcopum cum deſensore Ecclesize
$u2e $ub festinatione ad predictum ſratrem dirigat,
ut nos, ejusdem negolii cognita verilate, £uis ipse
epistolis certiores reddat.
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