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Gregorius • Eusebiæ patriciæ. Et si occupata mens vestra b divitiis I aut fortasse regiæ civitatis tumultuosis implicationibus 1240 nos per epistolas suas visitare postponit, nostrum est tamen etiam aversa filiorum corda dulci charitate proSequi, eaque ad benignum animum et admonendo et orarndo revocare. Unde nunc debitum salutationis alloquium solvens, hortor ut excellentia vestra a civitatis illius superfluis tumultibus animum averta, plusque ea quæ animae quam quae sunt corporis cogitet. Transitoria esse omnia perpendat.
Gregory to the patrician Eusebia. Even if your mind, occupied with riches, or perhaps by the tumultuous entanglements of the royal city, puts off visiting us by its letters, it is nevertheless ours to pursue even the averted hearts of our sons with sweet charity, and to recall them to a kindly disposition both by admonishing and by praying. Wherefore now, paying the debt of a salutary address, I exhort that your Excellency turn your mind away from the superfluous tumults of that city, and think more of the things which are of the soul than of those which are of the body. Let her weigh that all things are transitory.
額我略致貴婦厄鄔色比亞。縱然你的心因財富、或因京城喧擾的糾纏所纏累，而遲遲不以書信探望我們，然而以甜蜜的愛德去追尋、甚至去追尋我們兒女那已轉離之心，並藉勸勉與祈禱把他們召回到仁慈的心境，這卻是我們分內之事。為此如今，我在償付這問安之言的本分時勸勉：願你尊貴閣下把你的心從那城多餘的喧擾中轉開，多思念屬靈魂之事，過於屬肉身之事。願她衡量：一切都是暫時易逝的。
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Venturi judicis examen tremendum cum metu et lacrymis quotidie sine cessatione consideret, illumque diem, in quo perturbanda sunt omnia, cum timore ad animum reducat, ut iram judicis in ipso jam die non timeat. Omnipotens autem Deus haec vestris cogitationibus aspiratione sui spiritus infundat, vosque et h c cum nobilissimo conjuge et tranquille vivere, et, dc domni c Strategii salute gaudere faciat, atque po.t longa tempora ad aeterna præmia pervenire concedat d.
Let her daily, without ceasing, consider with fear and tears the dread examination of the Judge to come, and bring back to mind with fear that day on which all things are to be thrown into confusion, so that she may not fear the wrath of the Judge on that very day. And may Almighty God pour these thoughts into your cogitations by the inspiration of His Spirit, and may He make you both to live tranquilly here with your most noble husband, and to rejoice in the safety of the lord Strategius, and after long times to attain to the eternal rewards.
願她每日不斷地，以敬畏與眼淚思量那將臨審判者可畏的鑑察，並以敬畏把那日——那萬事都將被攪擾的日子——帶回心中，好使她在那日本身不至畏懼審判者的義怒。願全能天主藉祂聖神的默感，把這些思念傾注於你的心思之中，並願祂使你既在此地與你極高貴的丈夫寧靜地生活，又為主上斯特拉特吉烏斯的平安而歡欣，並在長久的時日之後達到那永恆的賞報。