Letter 2002: Gregory to Prejectus [Praeiectus], Bishop of Narni [city in Umbria, central Italy].
Gregory to Prejectus [Praeiectus], Bishop of Narni [city in Umbria, central Italy].
It has come to our attention that, on account of our pressing sins, a deadly plague is raging unchecked in your city of Narni — a matter that has grieved us greatly. For this reason, greeting your brotherhood in every way, we urge that you by no means cease in your admonition and exhortation of both the Lombards and the Romans who dwell in that place, and especially of the pagans and heretics, that they may be converted to the true and right Catholic faith. For in this way, divine mercy will perhaps come to their aid in this life on account of their conversion; or if it should happen that they die, they will — and this is even more to be hoped for — pass from this world absolved of their sins.
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Latin / Greek Original
AD PREJECTUM EPISCOPUN NARNIENSEM.
Ez mortiſere [uis occagione, cives ad penitentiam et
fidem hortandos.
Gregorins ® Prejecto episcopo Þ Narniensi.
Pervenit ad nos, peccatis imminentibus, in civitate
vesira Narniensi mortalitatem omnino grassari, 57Q
guz res nos nimis © addixit. Quamobrem salutantes
fraternitatem tuam modis omnibus, svademus' ut a
Langobardorum sive Romanorum, qui in codem loco
degunt, admonitione sive exhortatione 4 nulla ratione
cessetis, et maxime a geniilium et hereticorum, ut
ad veram rectamque ſidem cathoelicam convertantur,
Sic enim aut divina misericordia pro sua cis forsitan
Eeisr. |, —* Ante bancepist. prennititurin E1. et in
plur, Mss., scilicet Vatic., Colh., Reg., {lemporibus pape
Gregorii, etc. Acta suntdepositionis Laurenii archidia-
com Romani, et subrogationis Honorati in ejus locum.
Subjungitur, charia de Li:ania mej. Hac cum mini-
me pertineant ad epistvlas, ad calcem amandavimus;
aliunde quoque bc desiderautur in Angl. , Norw.,
Corb,
Monteleone, in occasum, Acl. 4 concil. Constantino-
politani sexti gubscripsit Theodorus epi>copus tis
E&ying banging Kporiias, Legitur et in soplima $ynv-
do, act. 1, Gu>sany.
© Quid sit $0{idus, disce ex Cangiano Glossario.
De svlido aureo cvjus bic mentionem lieri pulamus,
olim diximus in Vita Cassiodori, lib. 1, c. 4, n. 6.
Qualis autem tfuerit aut cujus pretii, non ex legibus
Salicis, Alemannicis, etc., quas laudat infra Gus-
8AaNv. repeli debet. Sed de his alibi adhuc uberius,
maxime 1, a, ind. xi, epist, 55, ad Dynamivm,
| TIremissis est lertia pars $olidi. Libra coaflaltur
ex 72 golidis. Solidum 40 Jenarios cuntinu!SSe OX
legibus Salicis, Alemannicis, Bajoariis, Ripuariisque
A conversione, et in hac vita 8ubveniet; aut si eos mi-
grare conligerit, a $uis, quod et magis optandum
est, transient facinoribus absoluti. (Cf. Joan. Diac.
l. n, c. 50.)
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