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Gregorius Joanni episcopo Syracusano. Quamvis glorioso Apollonio, magistro militum, communi filio, pateroam vos pietatem noverimus iuapendere, quia tamen eumdem dilectionis modum, quem circa eum sacerdotaliler exhibetis, nostris credidit apicibus augmentandum, idcirco eum fraternitati vestrae his epistolis commendamus, hortantes ut paternam in vobis, sicut decet, consolationem inveniat, et solatiis vestris, sicut usus exegerit, comitante justitia, poliatur, quatenus dum vestram erga se amplius fuerit dilecLionem expertus, et ipse quod de vobis confidit agnoscat, et nostram sentiat epistolam profuisse.
Gregory to John, bishop of Syracuse. Although we know that you extend fatherly affection toward the glorious Apollonius, master of soldiers, our common son, yet because he has believed that the same measure of love which you sacerdotally exhibit toward him ought to be augmented by our letters, therefore we commend him to your fraternity by this epistle, exhorting that he may find in you, as is fitting, fatherly consolation, and may be enriched by your comforts, as use shall have required, justice accompanying; so that when he shall have experienced your love toward himself the more, he himself may both recognize what he trusts concerning you, and may perceive that our letter has profited.
額我略致敘拉古主教若望。雖然我們知道你對我們共同的兒子、榮耀的軍務長官阿波羅尼烏施以父親般的慈愛，但因他相信你以司鐸身分向他表現的那同樣程度的愛，宜藉我們的書信加以增添，所以我們藉此書信把他薦於你的弟兄之情，勸勉你使他如理當地在你身上尋得父親般的安慰，並照事情所需、有公義相伴地，得享你的慰助；好使他既更深地經歷了你對他的愛，就既認出他所信賴於你的，也覺察到我們的書信確實有益。