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Gregorius " Mariniano Ravennae. Latore huc praesentium Candido abbate pro petendis reliquiis, quae et concessæ sunt, veniente, quanto de fraternitatis tuae nutrimento Letatus sum, quod in eo studium tuae fraternitatis apparuit, tanto contristatus sum quod ejus, ut volui, praesentia frui non potui, quod me et aegrotum reperit, et discedens in infirmitate adhuc positum dereliquit. Multum enim jam tempus est quod surgere de lectulo non valeo. Nam modo HIC me podagrae dolor cruciat, modo nescio quis in toto corpore cum dolore se ignis expand'it; et fit plerumque ut uno in me tempore ardor cum dolore confligat, et corpus in me animusque deficiat.
Gregory to Marinianus of Ravenna. When Candidus the abbot, the bearer of these presents, came here to ask for relics — which have indeed been granted — as greatly as I rejoiced over the nourishment of your Fraternity, because in him there appeared the zeal of your Fraternity, so greatly was I saddened that I could not, as I wished, enjoy his presence, since he found me sick, and departing left me still lying in infirmity. For it is now a long time that I am unable to rise from my little bed. For now the pain of gout torments me here, now I know not what fire spreads itself with pain throughout my whole body; and it often happens that at one and the same time the burning contends with the pain within me, and both body and spirit fail in me.
貴格利致拉溫納的馬里尼安。當本函的持有人、修道院院長甘弟督斯來到這裡索求聖髑——這聖髑確已恩准——時，我一面為你弟兄的養育之德大大歡喜，因為在他身上顯出你弟兄的熱心，一面卻大大憂傷，因我不能如願享受他的同在，因他來時見我患病，離去時又撇下我仍臥病中。因為我已有許久不能從小床上起身。因為此時痛風之痛在此折磨我，彼時又有我不知是何物的火帶著痛楚在我全身蔓延；並且常常在同一時刻，那灼熱在我裡面與痛楚相爭，我的身體與心靈都在我裡面衰竭。
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QuaDlis autem aliis necessitatibus extra haec quae retuli infirmitatis afficiar, enumerare non valeo. Sed breviter dico quia sic me infectio noni humoris imbibit, ut vivere mihi poena sit, et mortem desideranter exspectem, quam gemitibus meis solam esse credo posse remedium. Proinde, trater sanctissitne, divinae pro me pietatis misericordiam deprecare, ut percussionis suae erga me flagella propitius mitiget, et patientiam tolerandi concedat, ne nimio, quod absit, taedio in impatientiam cor erumpat, et ea quae bene curari per plagam poterat culpa, crescat ex murmure b. Datum mense Februarii, indict. 4. (Cr. Joan. Diac. I. IV, c. 67.)
But with what other troubles, beyond these of infirmity which I have related, I am afflicted, I cannot enumerate. But I say briefly that the infection of a noxious humour so pervades me that to live is a punishment to me, and I long for death, which alone I believe can be a remedy to my groanings. Therefore, most holy brother, entreat for me the mercy of divine loving-kindness, that He may graciously mitigate the scourges of His striking upon me, and grant patience to endure, lest, which God forbid, from excessive weariness my heart break out into impatience, and the fault which could well have been cured through the stroke should grow from murmuring. Given in the month of February, in the fourth indiction.
但除了我所述說的這些病痛之外，我還被何等別樣的困苦折磨，我實在數說不盡。我只簡短地說：一種有害體液的侵染如此浸透我，以致活著對我成了刑罰，我渴慕死亡，我相信惟有死亡才能成為我歎息的醫治。所以，至聖的弟兄，求你為我懇求神的仁慈憐憫，願祂施恩緩和祂擊打在我身上的鞭子，並賜我忍耐去承受，免得——但願神不容——我的心因過度的厭倦爆發為不耐煩，並使那本可藉鞭打得醫的過錯，因怨言而增長。發於二月，第四小紀年。