Letter 70

Pope Pelagius IUnknown|c. 559 AD|pelagius i|From Rome

Pope Pelagius I to Unknown.

Tit. Basilio and Oclatino defensoribus: Ambo iterum in seq. ep. 71 nominantur. P. Ewald, o. c., l. c., p. 557, n. 4, correctum voluit Oclatinum cod., that in textu servavi, in Ocleatinum, because of quendam huius nominis virum, who in GrEGORii Magni, Reg., I, 57; 59, apparet. Correctioni moreover Ewald not favet alia eiusdem nominis lectio, which in eadem Coli. Britannica exstat: in ep. 71 for Latinum mendose scriba descripsit. lam vero, Latinus and Oclatinus well among himself consen¬ tiunt, male moreover Latinus and Ocleatinus; quocirca genuinam to be duxi lectionem which prostat in textu. Oclatinus ceteroqui facile explicatur, uti t. IV, p. 763; his name prostat in inscriptione aliqua. Cf. CIL., t. III, 3138. the sentence vero J. Eangen, Geschich. der romisch. Kirche, t. II, Bonn, 1885, p. 400, n. 5, who praeferendum autumat Latinum, nullius pon¬ deris it seems. 1. Iohanni uiro glorioso exconsuli: thus, great when probabilitate, legendum, so that recte now monuit P. Ewald, o. c., l. c., p. 557, n. 6. also E. STEin, Histoire..., p. 615, n. 1, emendationem suscepit. Quoad exconsuli titulum, cf. Th. Mommsen, Nachtrdge..., l. c., p. 184, n. 2; E. STEin, La disparition du Sinat..., l. c., p. 318-320; Idem, Histoire..., p. 44; 68-69. talia scripta direximus: is ep. 69, or rather ep. 71, which eodem at the time data was. Paulinum pseudo the bishop: Forosimproniensem. Cf. notulas in ep. 60,1, p. 159. epistola 70 scopum and detineri through suos people faciat, and to we usque transmit<t>at. but, lest this sola militaris manus without ullo eccle¬ siae adminiculo to do uideatur, experientiam tuam to eamdem cause duximus destinandam. transmittat Loewen. 2. experientiam tuam: Inde merito opinatus is P. Ewald, o. c., ihid., n. 5, hanc epistulam to have been a paribus missam. that adtinet to titu¬ lum experientiae tuae, cf. which notavi in ep. 29,1, p. 84. PEIvAGII I PAPAE EPISXUEAE 71,1-3; 72,1 Prout in litteris now before datis to eum scripserat, denuo Pelagius loannem magistrum militum precatur, so that Paulinum the bishop compre¬ hendat and to himself perducat. Item and alios all of the church ministros, quos epistulae lator designet, in vincula coniiciat and antistiti subdat or to pontificem mittat. Defensores Basilius and Odatinus ei auxilium Eccle¬ siae praebebunt.

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