Letter 211: Part of the papal correspondence surrounding the Acacian Schism (484-519), the major breach between Rome and...

Do not think that our mind has been idle or negligent concerning your business; for we think of your weariness no differently than of our own. Indeed, through Menas, our church's notary, we have learned that your love still endures the hardships of confinement. And so, that almighty God may deign to grant a remedy for these adversities, we have directed letters both to our brother and fellow bishop John, and we have charged our son the deacon Dioscorus through our letters to bring to the attention of our lord and son, the prince Justin, the need and cause of your love, and to press insistently that our lord may deign to grant a fitting remedy to your desires. Your brotherhood should speak with the deacon Dioscorus, because it is necessary that he attend to your cause, either out of regard for Catholic communion or out of consideration for our exhortation. Given in the above-mentioned consulship [519 AD].

^sDec) Hormisdae papae ad Thomam et Nicostratum episcopos. De eorum causa se semper soUicitum fuisse ejusque curam nuper Johanni et Dioscoro demandasse. Hormisda Tliomae et Nicostrato episcopis. Animimi nostrum pro negotio vestro otiosum aut desidem non pute- tis; nam non aliter de vestra fatigatione quam de propria cogitamofl. Mena siquidem ecclesiae nostrae notario insinuante, cognovimus carita- . tem vestram adhuc observationum molestias sustinere. Et ideo ut ') istis adversitatibus Deus onmipotens dignetur praestare remedium, tam ad ep. 106. Johannem fratrem et coepiscopum nostrum scripta direximus, quam ep. 105. filio nostro Dioscoro diacono per litteras nostras injunximus, ut domino et filio nostro Justino principi necessitatem et causam tc- strae dilectionis insinuet, et instanter agat, quatenus desideriis vestris dominus noster congruum dignetur praestare efiectum. Cum qno Dioscoro diacono debet loqui vestra fratemitas, quia necesse est, ut intentioni vestrae vel intuitu catholicae communionis vel considera- tione nostrae adhortationis studeat. Data quo supra consule.