Letter 41: Hormisdas to Celer and Patricius, jointly.
HORMISDA CELERI ET PATRICIO A PARI, Quamuis prO loci
nostri consideratione de causa fidei catholicae minime tacere possimus, tamen ad hanc partem serenissimus princeps ma- gnopere directis affatibus nostrum incitauit studium, pro cuius 20 2 legatos uoluntate direximus. et quia huiusmodi causa filioiiim ecclesiae subleuari debet auxilio, salutantes cultu atque hono- rificentia competenti poscimus, ut pro ecclesiastica pace allega- tiones eorum, qui directi sunt, apud animos serenissimi principis adiuuetis. siquidem celsitudinis uestrae laborem non 25
Epist. CLI 1 — CLIIII 2.
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parua retributio subsequitur, cum omnipotenti deo nos gratias persoluere de uestris operibus feceritis.
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