Letter 169: Part of the papal correspondence surrounding the Acacian Schism (484-519), the major breach between Rome and...

In another letter we reported to your blessedness about the city of Scampis and the venerable bishop Trojus: in what manner he gave the libellus [formula of submission], and what festivity was celebrated in that city. With God's mercy we came to Lychnidus [modern Ohrid]. The venerable bishop Theodoritus of that city likewise gave the libellus, which was read aloud in the church, and all things were done according to your instructions. Pray to God; hope from his blessed apostles Peter and Paul, that God, who has bestowed such beginnings through your prayers, may likewise grant what follows to be prosperous, and that the times of your pontificate may forever be proclaimed in the correction of the churches. We directed this letter to your apostleship on the day of the Nones of March [March 7].

seu Tertia suggestio legatorum supra nominatorum. &• ^j^ d. 7Mart. Etiam Lignidi omnia secundwn Hormisdae mandalum acta esse nuntiant, In alia epistola significavimus *) beatitudini vestrae de Scam- ep. 59. pina civitate de venerabili Trojo episcopo: quo ordine libellum dedit, et qualis festivitas est celebrata in ipsa civitate. Cum Dei misericordia venimus ad^) Lignidum. Theodoritus episcopus venera- intellecta infra subjiciunt: nisi quomodo ad nos pervenerit, non possumus dieere. Quare G' stricte sequi satiuB duxiinus. B) G* a* nos positos, quod cum b cc ad grammaticae leges correximuB. Mox b cc w. cr. (pro vv, ss., i. e. viri sublimes) ... Hinohis. Patricius hic memoratus is yidetur, ad quem lcgati superiorcm epistolam 54 deferebaut. In arcana autem Procopii historia cap. 17 Leontins referendarius memoratur. Btasii II Laurentio de Lignido (non de Lychnido) inscriptam. Laurentio huic, 54* a. 519. bilis vir ipsius civitatis similiter libellmn dedit, qui libellus in eccle- sia est relectus, et omnia secundmn constitutionem vestram sunt f acta. Rogate Deum ; sperate ab apostolis ejus beatissimo Petro et Paulo, ut Deus, qui initia talia donavit orationibus vestris, similiter sequantur et prospera, ut tempora coronae^) vestrae in correctione ecclesiarum semper praedicentur. Quam epistolam ad apostolatom vestrum direximus die Nonarum Martiarum.