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Gregory to Cyprianus, deacon [rector of the papal patrimony in Sicily].
Our brother and fellow bishop Benenatus [bishop of Misenum] has informed us about a certain monk named Cicero, who on account of his transgressions — restore the aforementioned Cicero, together with his possessions which are said to have been deposited with Fantinus the defensor [a papal legal officer], to the ownership of the Church of Misenum [ancient coastal city near Naples] without any delay, so that since he tore himself away from the monastic life through the fall of sin, he may now recognize the yoke of servitude which he could have escaped had he remained in his religious vocation.
Given in the month of May, in the thirteenth indiction [May 595].
Gregory to Cyprianus, deacon [rector of the papal patrimony in Sicily].
Our brother and fellow bishop Benenatus [bishop of Misenum] has informed us about a certain monk named Cicero, who on account of his transgressions — restore the aforementioned Cicero, together with his possessions which are said to have been deposited with Fantinus the defensor [a papal legal officer], to the ownership of the Church of Misenum [ancient coastal city near Naples] without any delay, so that since he tore himself away from the monastic life through the fall of sin, he may now recognize the yoke of servitude which he could have escaped had he remained in his religious vocation.
Given in the month of May, in the thirteenth indiction [May 595].
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.