Letter 9162: The bearer of this letter is Theodosius, who serves as abbot of the monastery founded in earlier times by the late...
rilius nostcr Thcodosiua* abbas' monaetcrii quod a Libcrio quondam patricio*'*
in Campaniac partibue noacitur ease conetructum a nobis precibus speravit, ut eum cum
congregatione sua vestrae deberemus' gloriae commendare. Aaserit enim in murorura''
se vigiliia^ ultra virca suaa vehcmenter afRigi. Fetimus ergo gloriam vestram, ut, si-
quidem est possibilc, dc eodem per voa onere relevetur*. Sin vero hoc ut ex toto
non faciat, eat ummno difficilc, vcl ita illi ex noatra commendatione ipsum lovigantes
pondue eollicitudinis temperctis, ut, dum in Dei laudibus liberior vacare voluerit, pro
vobis, cuiue' opere, ut levationem aliquara habeat, factum eat, securior Dominum valeat
exorare, eed ct nostram sibi apud gloriams vcetram scntiat cpistolam profuisee.
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