Letter 9095: The matter I am writing about requires your immediate attention.

Gregory to Anthemius, subdeacon. Maurus, the bearer of this letter, asserts that he received certain merchandise from the magnificent Felix for four hundred solidi, and promised to pay six siliquae per solidus as profit on the price. When the profit was reckoned together, he says he issued two bonds — one for four hundred and fifty and another for fifty solidi — pledging to pay at a fixed time what he owed. We therefore direct your experience to negotiate with the aforesaid Felix, so that having received the principal sum of his payment, he may be content, and not further oppress the aforesaid Maurus by exacting additional profit.

AD ANTHEMIUM SUBDIACONUM., Apud Felicem agat, ut recepia a Mauro pretii 8orte 8:4 contentus. Gregorius Anthemio subdiacono. Maurus przsentium portitor in quadringentis solidis quasdam merces a Felice viro magniſico se asserit 8uscepisse, * alque promisisse $EX $iliquas per $0li- dum lucri causa persolvere pretii. > Qua lucri quan- litate in uno congest?, duas 88 cautiones, id est uvam de quadringentis quinquaginta, el alleram de quinquaginla 80lidis © emisisse, spondens cerlo lem- pore quod debeat exsolvere. Sed quia, ut perhibet, in eisdem mercibus pa-sus est non leve dispendium, et reslilulis quadringentis decen solidis, quod reli- quum lucri est implere compellitur, atque ex hoe majori se necessitati ac potius desperationi ingemi subjacere, el proplerea aliquo sibi subveniri pelit auxilio; experientia tua, $i ita est, apud predicion mulla dispendia preteritis commendet, consenticale Rhemensi. Secutz 8umus Normannos omnes. Eersr. XXXVIT [AL. 36]. — * De excommunice tione monachorum pro culpis,- vide regulam sancl Patris Benedicti, cap. 25, et quatuor Sequentibus. Consule quoque Concordiam Regularum, cap, 59, ubi de bac communicatione omuium ſere qui regulat monaslicas promulgaruut consensus5 oslenditur. _ OO —_ —_— —_—Couc__— o- bl _ ST \ .973-- EPISTOLARUM LIB. IX. — INDICT. I. — EPIST. XLI. 974 magnificum filiam nostrum una 95g cum reveren- A experientiz tuz * preceptione no8tre mandavimus dissimo ſratre et coepiscopo nostro Fortunato, ac glorioso filio nostro Maurentio magislro militum, quia et ipsi seribimus, agere $tudeal ut hac in re, sicut Chri-tianum decet et nobilem, plus benignus quam Trigidus, plus misericors esse deb-at quam di- . birictus, et Jucrum de damno alterius non exspectet, sed 4 recepla pretii sit sorle contentus, quatenus quidquid pauperi cesserit, omnipoteus ei Deus mul- tiplicala gicut promisit restitutione compenset. Ita ergo studiose experientia - tua agat, ut illi modis omnibus hoc pro mercede ipsius imponere et huuc ab aſflictione possit obligationis exuere.