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Reverendissimo et sanctissimo fratri suo Leandro coepiscopo Gregorius S. S. D. Dudum te, frater beatissime, in Constantinopolitana urbe cognoscens, cum me illic sedis apostolicae responsa constringerent, et te illuc injuncta pro causis fidei Wisigothorum legatio perduxisset, omne in tuis auribus, quod mihi deme displicebat, exposui, etc. Tunc eisdem fratribus, etiam cogente te, placuit, sicut ipse meministi, ut librum beati Job exponere importuna me petitione compellerent.
To his most reverend and most holy brother Leander, fellow bishop, Gregory, servant of the servants of God. Long ago, most blessed brother, knowing you in the city of Constantinople, when the responses of the Apostolic See constrained me there, and the legation enjoined upon you for the causes of the faith of the Visigoths had brought you thither, I laid out into your ears everything that displeased me about myself, etc. Then it pleased those same brethren, with you also urging, as you yourself remember, that they should compel me by importunate petition to expound the book of blessed Job.
致至可敬、至聖的弟兄、同為主教的良德，天主眾僕之僕額我略。至福的弟兄啊，很久以前，當宗座的答覆把我約束在君士坦丁堡城時，我在那裡認識了你；而為西哥德人信德之事所託付於你的使命，也把你帶到了那裡；我便向你的耳中傾吐了一切我對自己所不滿之事，等等。那時，正如你自己所記得的，那些弟兄們，在你也催促之下，遂決意以懇切的請求迫使我講解真福約伯之書。