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Gregorius Dono episcopo Messanensi. Georgius præsentium portitor degere, ut ait, in civitate vestra desiderans, apud fraternitatem vestram nostra se petiit epistola commendari. Cui quoniam a prava se promisit actione compescere, quod I etebat prævidimus non negandum. Et ideo sanctitas vestra de anima ejus studeat propter Deum esse sollicita, atque eum adhortationibus suis ad viam Deo placitam revocare; et si, adjuvante Domino, ut promisit, ab omni se pravitate suspendens, vivere honeste volueri., fraternitas vestra pro mercede sua, ut prospexerit, ejus sustentationi subveniat, ne forsitan a ad male agendum excusationem sibi ex necessitate videa'ur assumere.
Gregory to Donus, bishop of Messina. George, the bearer of the present letter, desiring, as he says, to dwell in your city, has begged to be commended to your Fraternity by our letter. Since he has promised to restrain himself from depraved conduct, we have foreseen that what he sought ought not to be denied. And therefore let your Holiness be zealous to be solicitous for God's sake concerning his soul, and by your exhortations to recall him to a way pleasing to God; and if, the Lord aiding, as he has promised, refraining himself from all depravity, he shall be willing to live honestly, let your Fraternity, for your own reward, according as you shall have provided, come to the aid of his sustenance, lest perchance he seem to take up for himself an excuse for doing evil out of necessity.
額我略致墨西拿主教多努斯。本信的傳遞者喬治，如他所言，因渴望在你們的城中居住，懇求藉我們的信被託付給閣下。既然他已應許約束自己不再有敗壞的行為，我們就認為他所求的不當拒絕。因此，願閣下為了天主的緣故，熱心關切他的靈魂，並藉你的勸勉將他召回到蒙天主喜悅的道路上；倘若蒙主相助，正如他所應許的，他能約束自己遠離一切敗壞、願意正直度日，願閣下為著自己的賞報，照你所籌劃的，接濟他的生計，免得他或許藉口困窘而為自己找到作惡的推託。
428:2
Quid autem fraternitas vestra ex ejus importunitate sit passura consideret, qai ad vos cum nostris episto!is venit, quem nos sine auctoritate aliqua importunum valde in prece pertulimus.
But let your Fraternity consider what you may have to suffer from his importunity—he who came to you with our letters, whom we ourselves, without any authority, endured as exceedingly importunate in his entreaty.
但願閣下思量：你可能要因他的糾纏而受何等的困擾——他帶著我們的信來到你們那裡，而我們自己，在毫無任何憑據的情況下，也曾忍受他在懇求中極為糾纏不休。