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Gregorius a Maximiano episcopo Syracusano. Mandata coelesiia efficacius gerimus, si nostra cum fratribus onera partiamur. Proinde super cunctas Siciliae Ecclesias b reverendissimum te virum Maximianum fratrem et coepiscopum nostrum vice sedis apostolicae ministrare dccernimus, ut quisquis illic relgionis habitu censetur, fraternitati tuae ex nostra auctoritate subjaceat quatenus cis non sit necessarium post hæc pro parvulis ad nos causis tanta maris spAtia transmeando pervenire. Sed si qua fortasse difficilia existunt, quae fraternitatis tuae judicio nequaquam dirimi possint, hæc solummodo nostrum judicium flagitent, ut sublevati de minimis, c in causis majoribus efficacius occupemur.
Gregory to Maximian, bishop of Syracuse. We carry out the heavenly commands more effectually if we share our burdens with our brethren. Accordingly, over all the Churches of Sicily we decree that you, most reverend man, Maximian, our brother and fellow bishop, shall minister in the stead of the apostolic see, so that whoever is there reckoned in the habit of religion may, by our authority, be subject to your Fraternity; so that it may not be necessary for them after this to come to us, traversing so great spaces of sea, for small matters. But if perhaps there exist certain difficult things which can by no means be settled by your Fraternity's judgement, let these alone demand our judgement, so that, being relieved of the least matters, we may be more effectually occupied in the greater causes.
額我略致敘拉古主教馬克西米安。我們若與弟兄們分擔重擔，就更有效地執行天上的命令。因此，我們裁定，在西西里所有教會之上，願你這位極可敬的人、我們的弟兄兼同工主教馬克西米安，代宗座施行職務，好使凡在那裡被算為屬修道之列者，都憑我們的權柄從屬於你的弟兄之愛；如此，他們此後便無需為小事跨越如此廣闊的海域前來我們這裡。但若或有某些難處，是你弟兄之愛的判斷斷不能解決的，就唯獨讓這些事需要我們的裁決，好使我們既得脫離最微小之事，便能更有效地專注於較大的案件。
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Quas videlicet vices d non loco, sed personae tribuimus, quia ex transacta in te vita didicimus quid etiam desuhseqnenti tua conversatione praesumamus. e Mense Decembri, indictione decima. (Cf. Joan. Diac. t. III, c. 25).
Which vicarial functions, namely, we assign not to the place, but to the person, because from your past life we have learned what we may also presume concerning your subsequent conduct. In the month of December, the tenth indiction. (Compare John the Deacon, Book III, chapter 25.)
這代理的職權，我們確是賦予其人、而非賦予其地，因為從你過往的生平，我們已得知對你日後行止也可有何種期許。時在十二月，第十個小紀年。（參閱執事若望，第三卷，第二十五章。）