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Gregorius Adriano notario Siciliae. Res ad nos omnino detestabilis et ncfanda pervenit, ei miramur cur, si veritate subsislit, 1056 eam minime cognovisti. Veniens autcin ad nos Martianus, monachus monasterii sancti Viti, quod in monte Ætua est positum, oblata nobis petitione questus est inter alia, ita monachos ejusdem monasterii perverse ac nequiter vivere, ut mulieres sibi sociare, quod dici nefas est, audeant.
Gregory to Adrianus, notary of Sicily. A matter altogether detestable and abominable has reached us, and we wonder why, if it stands upon the truth, you have by no means come to know it. For Martianus, a monk of the monastery of Saint Vitus which is situated on Mount Etna, coming to us, has complained by a petition offered to us, among other things, that the monks of that same monastery live so perversely and wickedly that they dare — a thing it is impious even to say — to associate women with themselves.
額我略致西西里公證員阿德里安努斯。一件全然可憎可惡之事臨到我們，我們詫異：若這事屬實，你為何竟一無所知。因為位於埃特納山上的聖維圖斯隱修院的修士瑪爾奇亞努斯來到我們這裡，藉呈給我們的一份陳情書，在別的事之外控訴說：該院的修士生活何等悖逆邪惡，竟敢——這事連說出來都是褻瀆的——把婦人結交於己。
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De qua re qnia fratri et coepiscopo nostro Leoni scripsimus, ut, requisita veritate, si ita repererit, districtissima a hoc studeat severitate corrigere, necesse quoque est ut in hac re tua se experientia ad investigandam veritatem, et puniendum tantum scelus omnimodo sollicite debeat exhibere, ut neque remisse, neque negligenter agi aliquid videatur. In aliis vero utilitatibus memorati monasterii solatia tua in quantum ratio poposcerit æquiatis impende, quatenus et si quid ei, sicut dicitur, invasum est, secundum justiliam reformetur, et de cætero præjudicium illic aliquod contra Dei timorem et tegum ordinem nullo modo generetur.
Concerning which matter, since we have written to our brother and fellow bishop Leo, that, the truth having been sought out, if he finds it so, he should be zealous to correct it with the strictest severity, it is also necessary that in this matter your experience should show itself altogether solicitous to investigate the truth and to punish so great a crime, so that nothing may seem to be done either remissly or negligently. But in the other affairs of the said monastery, extend your help insofar as the reasoning of equity shall require, so that both, if anything has been seized from it, as is said, it may be restored according to justice, and hereafter no prejudice may in any way be engendered there against the fear of God and the order of the laws.
關於此事，既然我們已寫信給我們的弟兄、同為主教的良，要他查明真相後，若查出果真如此，就當以最嚴厲的懲治來矯正，那麼也必要你的幹練在此事上顯出全然的關切，去查究真相並懲罰如此重大的罪惡，使得沒有一事顯得或鬆懈或疏忽地辦理。但在前述隱修院的其他事務上，就當按公道之理所要求的，施予你的援助，使得：若有物如所說從它被侵奪，就當照公義予以歸還；並使日後絕不至於在那裡滋生任何違反敬畏神與律法秩序的侵害。