Letter 10040

From: Gregory the Great, Pope, in Rome To: Fortunatus, Bishop of Naples Date: ~600 AD Context: Gregory writes again to the Bishop of Naples — another follow-up on an ongoing matter. Gregory to Fortunatus, bishop of Naples. I continue to follow this matter and await the report you have not yet sent. I will simply say again: the situation requires resolution, and the resolution requires your active engagement. If there are obstacles preventing you from addressing it, tell me what they are. If the matter has been resolved and you have simply not written to tell me, write immediately. The apostolic see cannot oversee what it is not informed about. Gregory

AD FORTUNATUM NEAPOLITANUM EPISCOPUM. A pueris Petrum de tentatione 8celeris accusantibus O_ accuratius exigat, Petro ips0 id postu- inle. Gregorius Fortunalo episcopo Neapolitano. Valde nos vestra mirpri fecit ſraternitas ut causam clerici $uj aul noluisset, aut non assurgeret deſinire. Petrus itaque przsentium portitor ad mos veniens, guestus est pueros a quibus de tentatione sceleris ſalso se agserit criminatuw, LQ79 non ut oportuit ess8 discuss0s, 8ed lantummode verbo tenus inquisi- los, * et sibi propter hoc solum, ne yobiscum proce. dere audeat, interdictum. Aut enim vera fuere que dicta sunt, et-juxla cause qualitatem canonice ſuit coerctioni subdendus ; aut ſalsa, et diu non debuit in crimine remanere. Quia et ratio indicit, et hic pro suj puriſicatione Þ sollicitus quz adversum se dicta sunt apostolicam sedem adiit, et juxta examinatione ſinixi perquirit, necesse est ut una cum Anthemio Subdiacono nostro $ubtili ac districta discussione a pueris illis veritatem exigere debeatis. Et si pre- dictus portitor attenlati facinoris reus esse paluerit, canonica modis omnibus ultione plectatur. Si vero insons ſuerit declaratus, celeri absolutione respiret, * et. yobiscum habeat procedendi licentiam, quia sicut reis competens exercenda vindicta est, jta innocentibus non est absolutio differenda. Sic ergo buic cause $0llicite ſraternitas veslra finem $tudeat { Excusi : kc ipsa que viderunt Alex. vementes d:- Terunt ; quod parva un, £ In solis recent. Ed. sic epistola clauditur : Mense Febr., indict. 3. Adversantur alii Codices tum exa- rFali tum excusi. EpisT. XL [Al. 251, — * Omitlitur propter in Norm. et Valic. A. » In Rhem, et Norm., sollicita que adversum 5e prehensionem incurrere.