Letter 9175: My beloved brother, I am glad to report that the business brought to us by the bearer of your last letter has been...

We have received the writings of your most sweet Holiness, delivered by the bearer of the present letter, which spoke to us about your case being settled more swiftly. But as soon as he came, he learned in what manner the possession which he was seeking from our church was held, and he promptly rendered the account of it to us. Those matters, moreover, which he had with others, he settled without any uproar. But concerning the case about which we ought to have written fully, your Holiness wrote nothing, in which you also judged us to be slow; which case perhaps [stands] in the scandal of division [...]. The timber, however, just as your Beatitude had written, we had prepared in larger quantity; but so small a ship was sent across here that, unless the pieces were cut down, it could not carry them. These we did not wish to cut down, but we have reserved them for your judgment, as to what ought to be done with them. But if they are not necessary, we fit them here to other uses. We ask, moreover, that your Holiness ought to pray more earnestly for us, since we are unceasingly pressed both by the pains of gout and by the swords of the barbarians and by the afflictions of our cares. But if you grant us the help of your prayer, we believe that you will bravely aid us against all adversities.

ocripta dulcissimae vcstrae sanctitatis latore pmcBcntium dcferentc auscepi, quae mihi de eiua cauBa citiuB tcrminanda locuta Bunt. Scd mox ut venit, qualiter poBBosaio ■) ex BKlutem corr. B 1. ■»} uoe H 1. ■>) perdurat Bl. **) perfui Bl. p) meTMlar C. q'3, ted eorr. C3. IX, 174 in ^iUo: ti-ibuno C* t et mdicet C1.2 ei C3; tribo Cl.2, ted eorr. m.3 m Iributio C3 — cenduin eodd. n. ^) add. e«t C3. ') ila scr. Eip.; om. a codd. n.,- risuni add. edd. IX, m offi. «*'■ — It* abdo: Eolochio Cl — pktriaroha Cl.a el in tad. — pstriuchi C3 — AlexuHln) Bl. 3) Cf. ep. IX, 340: camc tuoe eat cum pccuuiis bni: veoire, teU. ad rogam dicidendim. IX, 174. De JtAamw cf. ep. IX, 113 n. 6. I) De Bimifatio ef. ep. V, S p. 387 n. 2 i». 3. 2} De ntafiano, epiaoopo S^ontim, cf. ep. VIII, 8 m. ,GoogIe raDlCTIO n. IDL. (IX, 173-17G). 171 quam quaerebat ab ecclesia nostra* tenebatur, agnovit aibic)ue ipai oitiusrationem red- didit. Ea autem quae cum aliis habnit sine Btrepitu decidit. De causa vero de qua mibi omnino scribendum fiierat'' nihil veetra sanctitaa Bcripeit, in qua me et tardum eese iudicavit; quae ae" fortasse in scandalo diTisioDis Ligna vero^ sicut veetra beatitudo scripeerat, maiora paraveram-. sed ita" parva 10 navia huC transroieea est, ut, niei reciea eeecnt*', ferre non possetP. Quae recidi'> nolui, sed veetro iudicio, quid de hie 6eri debeat, reeervavi'. 3i autem non sunt ne- cessaria, hic* ea in aUis ueibus aptamus*. Poto autem, ut pro me enixius veetra sanclitaB orare debeat , quia et podagrae doloribus * et barbarorum gladiis et curamm afHictionibus inccseanter premor. Scd si" mihi orationis vestrae opem impenditis, credo, )^ quod me contra adversa omnia fortitcr iuvetis.