Letter 9199

From: Pope Gregory I To: Romanus, Defender of Sicily Date: ~599 AD Context: Gregory follows up on an order he gave the previous November regarding Sicilian affairs I am writing to follow up on the instructions I gave you last November, in the second indiction, concerning the affairs of Sicily. I want to know what progress has been made and what remains unresolved. Some matters of administration have a way of being acknowledged and then gradually forgotten, and I cannot allow that to happen here. Give me a full accounting of what has been done in response to my previous directive and what, if anything, requires further action from this see.

Menee NoTembrio praesentiB Bectmdae indictionis experieQtiae tuae praeceptione noatra mandamuB, ut Caliixeno* filio^ Stepbamae*' dommn Catlienae poBaessionis^, quam Mammoaia* avia eiuedem Callizeni* ecclesiae nostrae faota donatione' contolerat, reddere ei donationem eandem debuissesB'; qaod hac, ut dicitur, excosatione facere distulistj^ quia Dotitia ' eiusdem donationis non eeaet^ de pollyptycliiB ' caraxata*. Quod incongrue te" dixisse cognoBcas, dum ad munitionem" tuam praecepti Dosbi pagina possit valde aufGcere. Proinde praesenti auctoritate suscepta praedictam domum et donationem antefato" Callixeno^ orfano aine mora reBtitue. Nam quod iuBtum et ipse sentiat^, Dovimua, et nos tamcD praedicto'' eidem orfano BUpraacripto* domum es benigmtate largimur.