Letter 12015
Gregory the Great (Wisigothic)→Unknown|gregory great
From: Gregory the Great, Pope, in Rome
To: Romanus, defender [in Sicily]
Date: ~602 AD
Context: Gregory asks Romanus to assist Laurentius in completing Bonifatius's financial accounts — Book 12 version.
Gregory to Romanus, defender.
I am following up on my previous letter about the accounts of Bonifatius. Laurentius needs assistance completing them, and I have not heard that this assistance has been provided.
Please help him finish this work. Accurate and complete accounts matter — both for the integrity of our administration and for the protection of everyone whose resources are being accounted for.
Gregory
AD ROWANUM DEFENSOREM.
Laurentium juvet in finiendis Boniſacii numerari 14-
| lionibus.
Gregorius Romano deſensori.
quoniam sanctam Romanam, cui, auctore Deo, LIGY yz Experientiam 1am non latet in rationibus Boni-
deservimus, Ecclesiam, et conjugem $uam, quz $e
luitioni ecclesiasticz postea commendavit, heredes,
necnon et ſilium ſratris sui, Þ in unam unciam he-
_ redem idem noscitur reliquisse ; ea propter statim ut -
hoe precepinum susceperis, anlequam eum quisquam
obiisse cognoscat, et in substantia illius aliquid frau-
dis committat, ad locum in quo res ejus 8unt recon-
ditz? vine mora curabis accedere, et cum omni solli-
citudine ac diligentia studii tui sit, praesente Consentio
puero, qui rerum ipsarum esse custos asseritur, adhi-
bitis testibus, solemniter ac subliliter facere, easque
. res in loco twtissimo, ut ulile previderis, collocare,
quatenus apto terapore huc. cum eodem puero, Deo
auxiliante, valeant (ransmitti. Sed et cztera, in qui-
buslibet rebus © 8ive corporibus quz de 8nbstantia
ipsius esse didiceris, com omni strenuitate in unum
congregare et constituere festina, ut nihil de ejns
possit qualibet occasione deperire subs{antia. Hzc
jgitur omnia ita soHficita et subtili stude cura pera-
gere, ut 1e Nie posito ne dispendium in rebus ipsis
eveniat, et cujuslibet fraudis «ub qualibet occasiono
4 8jive exquisitione tocus aliquis patere non valeat.
Summa vero redituam ejus quz sit nobis pariler tuis
8Criplis indicare ſeslina.
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From: Gregory the Great, Pope, in Rome
To: Romanus, defender [in Sicily]
Date: ~602 AD
Context: Gregory asks Romanus to assist Laurentius in completing Bonifatius's financial accounts — Book 12 version.
Gregory to Romanus, defender.
I am following up on my previous letter about the accounts of Bonifatius. Laurentius needs assistance completing them, and I have not heard that this assistance has been provided.
Please help him finish this work. Accurate and complete accounts matter — both for the integrity of our administration and for the protection of everyone whose resources are being accounted for.
Gregory
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.