Letter 12003: A dispute has arisen between Victor and another party whose resolution requires the authority of your provincial...
How grave and in its very hearing intolerable the complaint of the bearer of this letter Donatdeus, who asserts he was a deacon, is, the petition given by him, which is held in the enclosed documents, will make manifest to your fraternity. But since it has come to us that he was deposed for a bodily offense, let your love investigate this with careful inquiry; and if it is so, he must be sent to penance, so that he may be able to dissolve with tears the bond of the crime he committed. But if he cries out that he is innocent of perpetrating such a thing, you must together with the primate of the council and other brothers examine the matter.
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Latin / Greek Original
Quam gravis et auditu ipso intolerabilis Donatdeum*^ latoris praesentium, quise^
asserit fuisse diaconem, sit querella, data ab eo petitio, quae tenetur in subditis,
fratemitati*' vestrae faciet*" manifestum. Sed quia pervenit ad nos, quod pro corporali
fuisset*^ depositus, dilectio vestra suptili hoc inquisitione^ perquirat, et, si ita est, in
paenitentia retmdendus est^f, ut commissi flagitii*' vinculum* lacrimis possit absolvere ''^.
Si vero insons ab huius modi perpetratione clamerit, una cum primate^ concilii*' vel
aliis fratribus coepiscopisque nostris omnia quae petitio eius continet diligenti a vobis
examinatione quaerenda sunt. Et si querella eius veritate fulcitur, et in episcopo
ipsius Victore *, qui contra Deum et sacerdotale propositum" tantum committere nefas"
non metuit, canonici** vigoris ita districtio teneatur, ut ex definitioneP vestra, quam sit
iniquum quod fecit, intellegat et hic suo ordini reformetur^, quia satis perversum et
contra ecclesiasticam probatur' esse censuram, ut fmstra pro" quomndam voluntatibus
quis privetur, quem sua culpa vel facinus ab officiis^ quo fungitur gradu non deicit.
») Buflicit Jil; suKcepit q*]. *) nec q3. ") ad q1. beati om. 111. ^) tranniniMC q1.
XII, 3 in Htulo: Numidiae q*3. ») ito RI.qI; donat et ras. 112; Donadeum q*1.q3; Donatdei,
tU videtur, q*2.3. se om. q*1. c) frateniitato Ji 1 ; fraternitatis q1. ^) faciat q1. •) /tic
1) Cf. MaUh. 6, 19. 2) De Hilaro cf. ep. I, 73 n. 2. 3) Cf. ep. I, 26 n. 6.
XII, 3 una, ut ridetur, cum ep. praeced., ned per alium latorem transmissa. — De Colutnbo cf.
ep. II, 46 n. 1) De huius modi nominihus cf, ep. VII, 32 n. 1. 2) De lapgis cf. ep. V, 6 n. 2. V, 18 n. 1.
IX, 147 p, 146 n. 1. 3) De primatibtis cf. ep. I, 72 n. 2. V,3 n.3. 4) Idem, ut videtur, secundum
ep. XII, 8 (quam cf.) primatus locum in Numidia tenuU mense Martio huius qumtae indictionis.
MENSE OCTOBRI INDICTIONE V.
MENSE NOVEMBRI INDICTIONE V.
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