Letter 12012: Brothers, the accusations that have been laid against Crescentius, your primate, are of a gravity that cannot be...

Just as it is praiseworthy and prudent to show due reverence and honor to one's superiors, so it is a matter of rectitude and the fear of God not to postpone by any dissimulation matters that need correction in them, lest — God forbid — the disease begin to invade the whole body, if the illness is not treated in the head. For some time ago certain things were brought to us concerning our brother Crementius, your primate, which pierced our heart with no small grief.

Sicut laudabilc discretumque est reverentiam et honorem debitum exhibere* prioribus, ita rectitudinis et Dei timoris est, si qua in eos^ corrcctionis indigent, nulla dissimulatione postponere, ne totum, quod absit, corpus incipiat morbus invadere, si languor non fuerit curatus in capite. Ante multum siquidem temporis quaedam ad nos® de fratre nostro Crementio primate vestro^ perlata sunt^, quae cor nostrum non modico maerore transfigerent ; sed premcntibus diversis tribulationibus et maxime circumsaevientibus * hostibus ea nobis non fuit spatium requirendi. Et quoniam ita sunt gravia, ut transire indiscussa nullo modo debeant, fratemitatem vestram his horta- 1) servaiiti RLq.q*. ™) relagat R2. °) Beuem q2. o) Hecuta (pro se cuucta) q1. p) ea om. R2, 4) ipse q*. ') ox u. a. umuiu q*2.3. perveuiat RJ. deliuqueritis R2. XII, 12 in tUulo: Vizachii oni. Rl; Wizautii R* 1. ») exhiberi RI.qI. *») eis Rl. c) ad noB om. R2. ^) vrm Rl. ^) circumvenieutibus Rl. 0 affectibus Rl. B) buq add. Rl. *>) indicare q* 1. *) et om. q*2.3.q2. ^) si oni. RI.qI. l) si om. RI.qJ.q*. ") et add. Rl.Ql.Q*. ") non q*2.3.q2. ") torpor, lU videtur, R2. P) cuiusdam qJ.2. i) sit om. q2. ') quolibet RJ. ^) n q*2.3. q2. t) discutiendis R1.q1.2.q*. ») secundum taliter Rl. ▼) accite Rl. ^) causa q*1. XII, J2. De CremefUio vel Clemefitio cf. ep. IX, 24 n. J. J) I)e causa Crementii ah imperatore ad papam ddata cf. ep. IX, 24. 27. GREGORn I. REGISTRI