Letter 88: Part of the papal correspondence surrounding the Acacian Schism (484-519), the major breach between Rome and...

How greatly our mind is wearied by sharing in your sorrow, it is superfluous to establish in words before those who prove their mutual charity; but may he who as a prescient searcher beholds both our spirit and your labors turn our grief into joy through your prosperity. Moreover, know that we have never ceased to act on behalf of your case with the most just advocacy and gentle intercession: know that we have sent letters to the most clement emperor, to the most excellent empress, and also to the illustrious and magnificent Justinianus and Germanus, our sons, containing your case specifically, which we have entrusted to the honorable Eulogius in such a way that he should first leave it to your judgment whether you choose to present them yourselves or whether they should rather be delivered through the bearer himself, both to the emperor and to the other persons we have designated above.

HORMISDA HEIIAE THOMAE ET NIGOSTRATO EPISCOPIS. QuautO mens nostra doloris uestri participio fatigetur, superuacuum 10 est apud probantes mutuam caritatem uerbis adsti'uere ; sed ille, qui et nostrum animum et uestros labores scrutator praescius intuetur, maerorem nostrum uestra in gaudium prosperitate conuertat. uerum ne uraquam pro uestro negotio 2 sub allegatione iustissima et blanda intercessione cessemus, 15 noueritis nos tam ad clementissimum principem quam ad praecellentissimam Augnstam nec non ad illustres et magni- ficos uiros lustinianum atque Germanum filios nostros litteras destinasse uestrum specialiter negotium continentes, quas uiro sublimi Eulogio ita tradidimus, ut in uestro primum ponat «0 arbitrio, utrum per uos eas eligatis offerre an per ipsum potius perlatorem tam principi porrigantur quam ceteris, quas designauimus supra, personis.