Letter 5034: Gregory to Cyprianus, deacon [rector of the papal patrimony in Sicily].

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].

AD CYPRIANUM DIACONUM. Ciceronem monachum lapsum Misenati Ecclesic, cujus ſuerat ſamulus, reslituat. Gregorius Cypriano diacono. « Benenatus frater et coepiscopus nos{er Cicero- nem quemdam monachum, Þ qui pro svis excessibus 4 Excusi, in eos, ubi frus!ira quareretur sensus, [d- eoque legendum in eorum, scilicel pena, quod etiam nos docuerunt Mss. omnes Vatic., Norm., Collectio Pauli, etc. Inſra, ex iisdem Mss. mulia reslituimns. in non vales, ut grammatic:e legibus caverent. At observare debuerant Gregorium frequenter usurpare verba deponentia in passiva S8ignificatione, ut hic nn ſ Libertino, vide epist. 38 lib. m. EyrsT. XX XIII [Al. 26]. — © De eo proxime epi- SLola 15 et 44 hnjus libri. In Norm. et aliis non pau- cis omittitur No/aao. | Qui bene presunt presbyteri duplici honore digni sunl, mazxime qui laborant in verbo et doctrina. Concinit Cyprianus, epist. 34, ubi de Celerino et Avrelio le- ctoribus : Sportulis, inquit, iisdem cum- presbyleris konorentur, e! divisiones mensurnas @equalis quantita- tibus partiantur, c1c. Lege libelium Theodori diaconi ad Levnem papam, et Chalcedonens. synod., ubi de militia multorum annorum , ut clericatum mereretur. Act. 5 ejuviem concil. Gussaxv. ..© In Vatic. legitur, mense Martio, indict, 13. SANCTI GRECORII MACGNI A prascriptum Cirervaem cum rebus suis, que apud Fantinum defensorem dicuntur esse depositz, do- minio © Misenatis Ecclesiz +ine aliqua dilatione re- Stitne, 4 ut poztquam a monachica conversalione culpz lapsu $e abripuit, * jugum dominii, quod eva- dere in conversatione permaneus poterat, recogno- Scat. ' Mense Maio, indictione 13.