Letter 101: Part of the papal correspondence surrounding the Acacian Schism (484-519), the major breach between Rome and...

Concern for your well-being and your activities so occupies us that, despite the frequency of our opportunities, we do not fail to urge that you make us certain by dispatched letters about what is being done around you. For both when we sent communications suited to our desires through the servant of the illustrious, magnificent, and patrician Agapitus, our son, and now too, we have thought it a comfort to our anxiety if we sent the present letter to you: all that matters is that you relieve us with your communications about your activities and your well-being, as well as about the delay by which we are greatly pained to know you are detained, at a suitable opportunity with a letter-carrier.

HOKJiiSDA QuiBus suPRA. Ita uos incolomitatis et actuum uestrorum cura sollicitat, ut quamnis frequentibus occasionibus non praetermittamus hortari certos nos de his, quae circa ts uos aguntur, fieri litteris destinatis. nam et cum per hominem illustris uiri atque magnifici patricii filii nostri Agapiti desideriis nostris congruos miserimus affatus et nunc quoque anxietatis nostrae credidimus solatio, si ad uos praesentia scripta mitteremus: tantum est, ut de actibus atque sospitate 2 6 uestra quantum p^: quantum uestra V 7 receptione F, corr. p 8 quo scripsi: co (on eo?) F, eo a ^non"^ immemores Car. 9 que admodum F, corr. a 12 scytarum V 16 tili (= tamen) V: tum Car. 19 adortationibuB V 694 Hormisda Germano etc; Possessor Hormisdae uestra nec non et de mora, per quam uos detineri plurimum dolemus, releuetis nos alloquiis sub occasione idonea porti- toris. Data VI. Idus lul. Kusticio u. c. cons.