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Gregorius Natali episcopo Salonitano. Scripta (Grat. dill. 74, cap. Geita) reverentiae tuae, quae a processioni nostrae gratias referebant, offerente Stephano diacono, quem direxistis, accepimus; et nimirum valde credenda sunt gratia et studio charitatis impensa, dum h pontiOcatus vestri congaudere ordinem ratio commonebat. Idcirco nos salutationis tuae causa redditi laetiores, conscientiam nostram indicamus, ipsius honoris oncra me aegro animo suscepisse. Sed quia c divinis judiciis non poteram d resultare, necessario mentem meam parti laetiori revocavi.
額我略致薩洛納的主教納塔利。你所差來的執事斯德望呈上你可敬之德的書信，為我們的晉陞致謝，我們已收到；這實在極該相信是以愛德的恩寵與熱忱所獻上的，因為理性提醒人為你們主教之職的品級同感喜樂。因此，我們因你問候之故而更覺欣慰，特向你表明我們的良知：我曾以憂苦的心承受這尊榮本身的重擔。但因我不能抗拒神的判決，我便不得已將我的心召回到那較為喜樂的一面。
Gregory to Natalis, bishop of Salona. We have received the writings of your reverence which returned thanks for our advancement, offered by Stephen the deacon whom you sent; and they are indeed much to be believed to have been bestowed with the grace and zeal of charity, since reason admonished you to rejoice together at the rank of your pontificate. Therefore, made the more glad by the occasion of your salutation, we declare our conscience: that we undertook the burdens of this very honor with an ailing mind. But because I could not resist the divine judgments, of necessity I recalled my mind to the more joyful part.
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Pro qua re reverentiam vestram epistolario sermone doposcimus, ut tam nos quam Christianus grex curæ nostrae commissus orationis vestrae solatiis perfruamur, quatenus ea valeamus praesidii firmitate procellas temporum superare. ° Mense Februario, indictione nona.
為此，我們以書信之言懇求你可敬之德，願我們並我們所受託照顧的基督羊群，都得享你祈禱的安慰，好使我們能藉那護佑的堅固，勝過時代的風暴。二月，第九年度徵稅期。
For which reason we beseech your reverence by epistolary discourse, that both we and the Christian flock committed to our care may fully enjoy the consolations of your prayer, so that we may be able, by the firmness of that protection, to overcome the storms of the times. In the month of February, in the ninth indiction.