Letter 6

Pope Pelagius IUnknown|c. 557 AD|pelagius i|From Rome

Pope Pelagius I to Unknown.

to the Lord FIIvIO MERITO GLORIOSISSIMO ATQUE praecellentissimo childeberto regi pelagius bishop. Excellentiae your letters after illas quas legati i uestri detulerunt, also through eos quos brother and coepiscopus our Sapaudus to we direxit, reuerenter we received; and salutis your, which to us always optanda is, cognoscentes indicia, gratias diuinae pietati retulimus, exorantes clementiam his, so that you annis pluribus dexterae suae protectione seruet incolumes. Uices moreover 2 nostras praefato consacerdoti our Sapaudo secundum petitionem uestram direximus, usum pallii pariter concedentes; because in scrinio ecclesiastico huiusmodi exempla repperimus, quibus osten¬ ditur, Arelatensibus to the bishops a holy recordationis decessoribus nostris this to have been conlata. Propterea, salutantes cultu regalibus 3 infulis debito, postulamus, so that thus eum atque the church his grace domno (?) 3 bishop] om, Ui a* 5 direxit] from dieexit (?) 7 exortantes ai 7-8 you annis... seruet] you seq, lacuna tue seruet aj, you largiflua pietate sua conseruet uices] '. letters Ui 9 sabaudo a, 10 pallei «g 5, l. 3839, where recte descripsit) 11 eclesiastico ai 12 arelatensis ai 14. 557: this for die censeo epistulam datam to have been, when abs dubio una when ep. 5 may have been missa. 1. legati uestri: Cf. ep. 4,1, and notulas in ep. 3,1, p. 11 and 6. through eos quos... Sapaudus to we direxit: Cf. ep. 5,8 and adnotationes to eundem locum, p. 16-17. 2. Uices... nostras Cf. ep. 5.,5 excellentiae your tueatur ac foueat, lest, whom through uices nostras augeri, propitiante to the Lord postulastis, in aliqua parte cuiquam Gallicanorum of the priests or cuiuslibet of the order ecclesiastici perso¬ nae, that not oportet, contemptibilis habeatur, and in eo auctoritati holy of the see apostolic and genio uestro, who for eo suffragatores acceditis, that absit, uideatur in aliquo derogari. safe excellentiam uestram God our may guard, domine fili gloriosissi¬ me atque praecellentissime. propiciante flJi postulatis as 18 eo] ea. of authority, auctoritate 19 holy] superscr, Ui sedi and genio] codd, (signum in marg, )', ingenio Gundlach P safe (?) from p safe « 1, perincolomem (cf, ep, 8, l. 25, where all codd, have safe) 21 excellen¬ tissimum your our] nostrorum 22. lest... contemptibilis habeatur: Cf. notata in ep. 2,5-7. and genio uestro: Originalis certe lectio, quam all codices tes¬ tantur. Perperam correxit Gundlach; genius for well loco huic coaptatur. tas, authority), p. 1841 (= honos). Incolumen: Cf. apparatum. Lectionem cod. p transcripsit W. Gundeach, Epp, Arelatenses, l. c.: p, eo that above p, after paragraphi signum safe scriptum, is notatio -f-. Digna moreover which notetur this coniectura forte videbitur. An that signum p, that prostat also before exitum ep. 7 (§19), foret re ipsa P or chresimon (or crux), that exstat before initium quarundem inscriptionum, quamquam raro, also aevo lustiniani? Cf. CIL., t. VI, 1, 1199 when notulis; (1200); t. VIII, 1, 1863; 4677; (t. VIII, 2, 10529); t. X, 1, 101; 4497; 4500-4505; 4517; 5328; t. X, 2, 8045,14; 8082-8083. Satis for cognitum is, multa compendia epigraphica in codd. to have been adhibita; now vero, that P or chresimon (or crux) before salutationem in fine epistularum, now in documentis pontificum s. vr posset inveniri, veri simile facit usus scribendi, also s. ix, in antiquioribus bullis pontificiis adservatis, duas cruces initio and fine salutationis well Ualete, and certius adhuc to do it seems subscriptio Victoris, of the bishop Capuani (aa. 546-547) in celebri cod. Fuldensi, quam indeed subscriptionem prae¬ cedit crux. Cf. B. Ranke, o, c., p. 398 and 462. and so haberetur in casu rarissimum vestigium vetustissimi signi, that incuria and ignorantia praeser¬ tim scribarum, id that vellet now ignorantium, from epistulis antiquorum pontificum paulatim evanuerit. PEI.AGII I PAPAE when in epistula quarta congruum responsum concerning rebus levissimis through Rufinum quaesitis regi dedisset, eidem hac epistula suam professionem of the faith proponens in quaestione maximi momenti satis facit. Rogat insuper regem so that impedire velit, lest against of the church tuiitatem, in Gallia quidam insolenter garrientes, maligna semina divisionis iactare through¬ sistant.

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