Letter 182: Part of the papal correspondence surrounding the Acacian Schism (484-519), the major breach between Rome and...

It is necessary that we think either about the state of the business assigned to you or about the absence of your love, and our concern for these matters does not suffer us to let pass any occasions of writing. Previously, through Stephanus the merchant, whom we have commended to you, we sent letters. Now too, having found another occasion, we repeat this same attention, greeting your love through the present page, and desiring to be instructed either about your health or about the progress of the cause. We ask and urge you to make us fully certain, by sending letters at every opportunity, what has been done or what situation you have encountered. Given on the third day before the Kalends of May [April 29], in the consulship of the most distinguished Eutharicus [519 AD].

a- 519 a. Hormisdae papac ad eosdem. 29April. *^ *^ (jeslil doceri de iis, quae perfecerinU nc Stephnnum negotiatorem eis commendat, Hormisda legatis nostris quibus supra. Necesse est, ut vel de injunctae actionis statu vel de vestrae dilectionis cogitemus absentia, et pro his rebus sollicitudo nostra uon patitur scribendi quaslibet occasiones omittere. Antehac per magistrianum , qui iii Symmachi patricii remeavit obsequium, litie- ras caritati vestrfie direximus, hortantes, ut nos de universis, quae in causa ecclesiastica gesta sunt vel geruntur, non omitteretis in- struere; quod et facere pro nostrae cogitationis relevatione debetis, Nostri enim voti est, ut labori vestro Deus omnipotens desideratum concedere dignetur eflFectum. Stephanum negotiatorem, per quem • vobis nostra contradentur alloquia, in quo ratio •poposcerit, eom- petentibus solatiis adjuvate, quia hunc semper nostrum fuisse reco- litis. Data eodem die.