Letter 12019

**From:** Gregory I, Bishop of Rome **To:** Maurentius, Master of Soldiers **Date:** ~602 AD **Context:** Sends twenty woven cushions (plectiles sellae) as a gift. I am sending you twenty of the woven cushions you requested. I hope they serve you well — it is a small thing I can offer someone who carries the burdens you do. Accept them in the spirit in which they are sent: genuine regard for a man whose service to the order of things I respect. My health continues to be difficult, but my thoughts remain with those in the field.

AD MAURENTIUM MACISTRUM MILITUM. _ Plectiles 8ellas viginti quatuor petit. Gregorius Manreiitio tmagistro militum. Cognoscat gloria vestra * mandasse nos Anthemio 8ubdiacono ut aliquant4s $elias plectiles nobis diri- C gere Student. Ant $i factas non Mmvenerit, ipsum apud 8e artificem toflat, ut in domo ipsins debeat laborare, et vel viginti quatuor sellas omnino bonas faeiat. Et ideo quia omnino nobis sunt neces$arie, gloria vestra ut hoc fieri pos$it provideat. Et $i forte yos jam aliquas conquisistis, nobis eas transmittite. Sed et Juliano viro clarissimo Þ majori excellentiz vestrz; aut si quis alter habuerit, eas nobis mittere procuret. Na ergo gloria vestra faciat, ut hexc que scripsimus sollicitudinis vestre debeant modis om- nibus jnslantia procurari.