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Gregorius u Romano, patricio et b exarcho Italiæ. Scribendi ad excellentiam vestram si causa omnino nulla suppeteret, nos tamen esse oportet charitate paterna de vestrae salutis incolumitate sollicitos, ut quod de vobis audire cupimus, internuntiorum rrcquentia cognoscamus. Præterea pervenit ad nos, Blandum episcopum Hortensis c civitatis longo jam tempore in civitate 522 Ravennate a vestra excellentia detineri, Et iit ut Ecclesia sine rectore, ct populus, quasi sine pastore grex, defluat, et bidcm d infantes pro peccatis absque baptismate mor:antur. Et rursus quia non credi' u;
貴鑑，貴族暨意大利總督羅馬努斯：即或全然沒有緣由寫信給貴閣下，我們仍應以慈父的愛德，為你安康的無恙掛心，好使我們所渴望聽見關於你的消息，能藉使者的頻繁往來得知。此外，我們得知：奧爾塔城的主教布蘭杜斯，已被貴閣下長久扣留在拉文納城；如此便發生教會無牧者、百姓如羊群無牧人而流散，那裡的嬰孩也因罪未受洗而死亡的事。再者，因為不可相信；
Gregory to Romanus, patrician and exarch of Italy. Even if no cause at all were at hand for writing to your Excellency, yet it behoves us with paternal charity to be solicitous for the soundness of your welfare, so that what we desire to hear concerning you, we may learn by the frequency of messengers. Moreover, it has come to us that Blandus, bishop of the city of Hortae, has now for a long time been detained by your Excellency in the city of Ravenna; and thus it happens that the Church without a ruler, and the people as a flock without a shepherd, flow away, and there the infants die for their sins without baptism. And again, because it is not to be believed;
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quod cum excellentia vestra, nisi pro aliqua probabilis excessus causa tenueril, oportet ut habita synodo palam liat, si quod in eum crimen intenditur. Et si talis in eo culpa reperitur, quæ usque ad degradationem sacerdotii perducatur, aliam necesse est ordinationem inqu!ramus, nc Ecclesia Dei in his sine quibus eam Christiana non patitur esse reHgio. inculta ac destituta remaneat, Sin autem excellentia vestra aliter sa habere quam de eo quod dicitur esse perspexeril, eun ad Ecclesiam suam reverti concedat, ut officium suum in commissis sibi animabus adimpleat. c Mense Martio, indictione nona.
就是說，貴閣下若非為了某種可能之過犯的緣由，本不會扣留他；所以，若有任何罪名控告他，理當召開會議，公開查明。倘若在他身上查出那足以導致革除聖職之過犯，我們就必須另尋一次聖任，免得神的教會，在那些若缺之基督教便不容其存在的事上，仍舊荒廢無人。但若貴閣下察覺此事並非如所傳言論他的那樣，就當准他返回自己的教會，好使他在託付於他的靈魂中盡自己的職分。在三月，第九個獻納年期。
that your Excellency, unless for some cause of a probable excess, would have detained him, it behoves that, a synod being held, it be made manifest, if any crime is charged against him. And if such a fault is found in him as would lead even to the degradation of his priesthood, we must needs seek another ordination, lest the Church of God, in those things without which the Christian religion does not suffer it to be, should remain uncultivated and destitute. But if your Excellency shall have perceived the matter to be otherwise than as is said concerning him, let him grant that he return to his own Church, that he may fulfil his office in the souls committed to him. In the month of March, in the ninth indiction.