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Gregorius Romano defensori nostro Siciliæ. Perlatum ad nos est (Grat. dist. 88, c. 4) reverendissimum fratrem nostrum Basilium episcopum velut a unum 1048 de uliimis in causis occupari, et b prætoriis inutiliter observare. Quæ res quoniam et ipsum vilem reddit, et reverentiam sacerdotalem annihilat, statim ut experientia tua hoc praeceptum susceperit, eum ita ad revertendum districta exsecutione compeltat, quatenus ei illic te insistente quinque diebus sub qualibet fxcusatione immorari non liceat; ne si quolibet modo eum ibidem moram habere permiseris, cum ipso apud nos gravitPr incipias esse culpabilis. c Datum mense Decembris, iudict. 3. (Cr. Joan. Diae. I. IH, c. 36. Vide ep. 9.)
Gregory to Romanus, our defensor of Sicily. It has been brought to us (Grat. dist. 88, c. 4) that our most reverend brother Basil the bishop is occupied, as if one of the lowest, in lawsuits, and uselessly frequents the praetoria. Since this matter both renders him vile and annihilates priestly reverence, as soon as your experience shall have received this precept, compel him by strict execution so to return, that, with you insisting, it be not permitted him to tarry there five days under any excuse whatever; lest, if in any manner you permit him to have delay there, you begin with him to be gravely culpable before us. Given in the month of December, indiction 3. (Cf. John the Deacon, Bk. III, c. 36. See ep. 9.)
貴格利致我們西西里的護衛官羅馬努斯。有事被稟報於我們（《格拉提安教令集》分課88，章4）：我們極可敬的弟兄巴西流主教竟像個微末之輩似的忙於訴訟，並無益地流連於官署。既然這事既使他變得卑賤，又抹煞了祭司的尊嚴，那麼你的幹練一接到此諭令，就當以嚴厲的執行強使他歸回，使得——在你堅持之下——他不得以任何藉口在那裡逗留五天；免得你若以任何方式容他在那裡耽延，就要與他一同在我們面前開始擔負重大的罪責。發於十二月，第三期年課。（參約翰執事，第三卷，章36。見書信9。）