Letter 9044: **From:** Gregory I, Bishop of Rome
AD FELICEM IN SICILIA.
Ipsum de Joanne episcopo quasi judicium reſugiente
immerilo conquerti, cum illud ipse distulerit. Ad fi-
niendam cito. judicii censura litem horlatur.
Gregorius Felici in Sicilia.
Cum reverendissimi fratris nostri Joannis epi<copi
bene nobis nota sit gravitas, mirari nos gloriz ve-
s$lre valde fecit epistola quod 'nihbil eum $e-
cundum admonitionem nostram facere voluisse si-
gnabat. Et quidem durum nobis videbatur , aut
vobis non credere, aut de illo talia susgpicari,
quippe cujus cogniti nobis mores et actio non
permittebant tale habere judictum. Cum ergo nosler
animus dubius in uiroque penderet, comperimns cum
inter vos et Ecclesjiam 8uam voluisse esse judicium,
sed vesiram magis gloriam distulisse. Quod negare
neque homo vester lator prasentium potuit. Et con-
trislati 8umus cur gloria vestra, que judicium refu-
git, contra eum queri voluerit, postquam conslat
quia quod rationis ſuit, vel uliro, ut scripsimus, vbe-
divit. Nec ei £cribere iterum necessarium erat , ne
distulisse prius Secundum animum videretur., Sed ne
vos contristare forsitan videremur, ex abundanli
rursus previdimus scribendum. Et quoniam cerli
Sumus quia quidquid zxquitas ordinaverit, facere no
recuset, oportel ut gloria vestra animos $uos contra
ejus invidiam non accendat, sed studeat jnire judi-
Eeisr, XLII [ Af. 42]. — * De Theodelinda uber-
rime in Vita sancti Gregorii egimus. Vide supra, lib-
Iv, epist. 2.
- Þ Poxt vicem additur in Excusis ef retributionem,
quod abest a Mss.
977 EPISTOLARUM LIB. IX. — INDICT, 1. — EPIST. XLYI. 978
cium, in quo una eademque cognitione et * momenti A iavasam nuper asseruit, decess0ris vestri recordandz
el proprielatis causa valeat distingui. Nam nos ve-
nire ad judicium cupienti , prejudicialiter scribere
quzedam non possumus, quia ita nos uni parti ac- '
commodare decet auditum, ut tamen alteri, praser-
tim inauditz allegationis, sine dubio rem integram
reservemus. Et ideo agite, sicut diximus, ut nego-
tiorum vestrorum merita, verilate cognita, judicii
censura definiat. Nam dum nullum velimus Þ pre-
judicium sustinere, multo magis vobis, sicut revera
filiis, volumus servari quod justum est.
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