Letter 16: Simplicius asks Acacius to act in his own name before the emperor so that the statutes decreed at the Council of...
^^jIul^ Simplicii papae ad Acaeium Gonstantinopolitanam.
Ut suo ipsius nomine apitd imperaiorem agat, ne quae in Calchedonenn 9jfnodo p.
siatuta sunt ullatenus violentur,
Simplicius episcopus Acacio episcopo Constanti-
nopolitano.
Quum filii nostri^ illustris vir Latinus patricius et spectabiKs
Madusius^ pro legatione publica mitterentur, negligere non potuimus
quod omni intentione curamus. Proxime namque quum preebyte-
rorum et monachorum de Timotkeo olim al) universali Ecclesia sepa-
rato querela venisset, tam Christianissimo principi quam dilectioni
tuae scripsimus, ut modis omnibus resistat, ne quid haereticorum
contra Calchedonense concilium moliatur audacia^ frater carissime;
et dilectionis tuae laudando constantiam^ multiun nobis inuno ipsi
Domino placere memoravimus,. quod damnatum hominem nou solum
fidei sed etiam parricidii causa nullam Constantinopoli ecclesiam
introire permiseris. Quod nunc iterum commonemus^ ut quum ad
dilectionem tuam eadem scripta pervenerint, immo etiam donec ve-
niant^ apud Christianissimum principem etiam nostro nonune agere
suppliciter atque insinuare non desinas, ut quae toties et bene sta-
tuta sunt; nulla obreptione violentur: quia regni ejus certumetsin-
gidare est firmamentum, vero atque aetemo regi congregatorum in
causa fidei divino Spiritu sacerdotum illaesum conservare concilium.
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