Letter 7045: **From:** Gregory I, Bishop of Rome
Come to Rome as soon as you can. I need to speak with you directly about matters that cannot be resolved through correspondence. Make whatever arrangements are necessary for your monastery in your absence and set out without delay. I would not summon you away from your community without reason — the urgency is real.
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Latin / Greek Original
AD CLAUDIUM ABBATEM.
Romam quanlocius veniat.
Gregorins Claudio abbati.
Veniente * viro reverendissimo Severo episcopo,
Eerisr. XLIV [Al. 44]. — * Beccensis Codex, ex-
m.
9 Ye. D ac Norm., in hoc..... faciat (8c. dilectio
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stolorum principis limina pariter venire, quia et ia
mihi ſuerat nuntiatum, et valde ex eodem nunlio
I»tabar. Sed credo te > occupationibus monasterii
prazpeditum, et idcirco ad me minime venisse. Epi-
stolas vero quas dilectio tua ante hoc tempus trans-
miserat accipiens, sicut voluizsti, secreto yelegi. Sel
de tribus personis de quibus scripseras, nihil vidi
esse possibile ; de ea maxime persona, quz hic apud
' me ſuit non suspicor posse aliquid tale vtiliter fieri,
que aut naturz simplicilate, aut negligentia Llorpere
mihi visa est. Et ideo dilectio tua $i quid valet illic
requirat, et sollicite disponat, atque ad me veniat.
Si vero venire non valet, vel post aliquantum lem-
poris venire debet , ut usque ad quinque vel sex
R menses, si vita comes fuerit, mecum ſaciat, et post-
ea ad -propria revertatur. Omnipotens Dei gratia ab
omni te adversitale custodiat.
tua) vindicari.
EeisT. XLV [Al. #1, ind. 4]. — * Vabtic. A, viro
clarissimo. Abest a cxteris Vatic., a Norm., Anglic.
et plerisque Mss. hec epislola.
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