Letter 2024: Gregory to Maximianus, bishop of Syracuse [Sicily].
AD MAXIMIANUM EPISCOPUM SYRACUSANUM.
Ut laudatum a Felice presbyterum diligenter exa-
minet, cumque Romam, 8i episcopatu dignum per-
spexeril, nuital,
Gregorius Maximiano episcopo Syracusano.
Felix vir consularis, presentium lator, edocuit nos,
esxe quemdam in illis partibus presbyterum, qui ad
episcopatus ordiunem provehi vite merito dignus ap-
pareat. Hunc ergo ſralernitas tua coram $e deduci
ſaciat, eumque, Sicul cerlus $um, propter anime
periculum diligenter examinet. Quem $i ad hunc gra-
dum provehi dignum esse perspexerit, ad nos studeat
deslinare, ut cum, disponente Deo, loco cui praevide-
rimus, possimus * ordinare pastorem. Prasentium
vero latorem Felicem > virum consularem chartula-
rium, Salva ſraternilati tuz juslitia, commendamus,
quatenus in iis que jiusle poposcerit , fraternum-
invenire possit afſectum. (Cf. Joan. Diac. lib. 1,
c. 15.) |
D ralde inhumanum es! a nemine accipere; 8ed passim,
disum, in persona inſe10s ; 8c aliqut dum in minoribus'
eranl, concionibus il;u>lres; illnstrissimi dum fiunl,
obmutescunt, Diceres apud quosdam pedum pastorale
rudem esse qua donati velterania militia discedebant,
cum contra reparandi belli major imponatur per epi-
SCopalum necessitas. Plura Sunt apud sanctum Chry-
So$tomum , homil. 5 in Acta aposlolorum. Vide
epist. 41 lib. v, alias 12 lib. 1v. GousSavv.
© lia Mss., quod verbum editores mutarunt in
urgel.
vilissimum est; et omnia, avarissimum. Tandem con-
cludit : Sed nec renia producenda sunt ad munerum
qualitatem ; $cilicet munera plus sunt quam xenia.
Alciaius, in lege 194, de verborum 8igntf., omnes
ſere munerum $pecies explicat, et de xenio dicit pro-
prie esse munus quod hospitibus datur; $ed in jure
pro munu>culis accipi, que judicibus solent ad 'eo-
rum gratiam aucupandam milti. GUsSANVY.
bh Procul dubio ad sanctum Petrum.
EeisT. XXIV (Al. 18). — * Ea zlate episcopi Ita-
lie, Sicilize el aliarum viciniorum provinciarum, nun
consecrabantur nisi a Rom. pont. tanquam Patriarcha
Uccidentis, vel,de ejus licentia, ett. ALTESERRA.
Felicem vicaria charitate. Sequimur Norm., CorbÞ.,
Yalic. Þ, etc. De chartularii diguitate vide Alteserraul
hoc loco.
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