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Gregorius Theodoro a duci b Sardiniae. Justitiam, quam mente geritis, oportet comm hominibus luce operum demonstretis. Juliana siquidem abbatissa monasterii c sancti Viti, quod 543 Vituta d quondam recordandæ memoriae construxerat, insinuavit nobis a Donato officiali vestro possessionem juris prædicti monasterii detentari. Qui dum escelleotiæ vestrae patrociniis c se cingi conspicit, ad examinandum judicium venire contemnit. Sed nunc r gloria vestra praecipiat eumdem officialem cum praedicta ancilla Dei arbitrale subire judicium, quatenus quidquid eorum de tali controversia arbitronum judicio fuerit diffnitum, effectui mancipe. tur;
額我略致撒丁尼亞公爵泰奧多。你心中所懷的公義，理當藉善行的光輝向世人彰顯。因為聖維多隱修院——即已故堪念的維圖塔所建者——的院長茱莉安娜向我們告知：前述隱修院所應有的一項產業，被你的官吏多納圖斯不義地霸佔。而他既見自己有你閣下的庇護為護身，便不屑前來接受審判的查究。但如今，願你的榮光命令這同一官吏，與前述天主的使女一同接受仲裁審判，好叫仲裁人就此爭議所裁定的一切，得以付諸實行；
Gregory to Theodore, duke of Sardinia. The justice which you bear in your mind you ought to demonstrate to men by the light of your works. For Juliana, abbess of the monastery of Saint Vitus, which Vituta of once-worthy memory had built, has informed us that a possession belonging to the right of the aforesaid monastery is being wrongfully held by Donatus, your official. And he, while he sees himself girded with the patronage of your Excellency, disdains to come to the examination of judgment. But now let your Glory command the same official to submit, with the aforesaid handmaid of God, to arbitral judgment, so that whatever shall have been determined by the judgment of the arbiters concerning such a controversy may be carried into effect;
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ut id quod se amittere sive retintre perspexerit, non hoc virtutis opere fieri, sed legis justitiæ debeat repotari. Praeterea et Pompeiana religiosa, qum monasterium In domo propria construxisse dignoscitur, questa cst matrem quondam generi sui defuncti testamentum cjus velle cassare, quatenus ultimum filii ejus arbitrium ad irritum dcJucatur. Pro qua re charitate paterna gloriam vestram necessarium duximus adhortandam, ut piis se causis salva justitia libenter accommodet, et quidquid bis juris ratio tribuit, benigne jubeat custodiri. Dominum autem petimus ut viam vitae vestrae propitius dirigat, dignitatemque susceptam administrationis prosperitatc disponat.
如此，凡他察覺自己所失去或所保留的，都可算作不是憑權勢之作為、而是憑法律之公義而成就的。此外，那位虔敬的婦人龐培雅娜——據悉她曾在自己家中建了一座隱修院——申訴說：她已故女婿的母親想要廢除他的遺囑，好使她兒子的最終遺願化為烏有。為此緣故，我們本著父愛，認為有必要勸勉你的榮光：你當在保全公義之下，甘心樂意地投身於敬虔的事業，並仁慈地下令保守法理所賦予這些事業的一切。我們也懇求上主，願祂施恩引導你生命的道路，並以順遂安排你所承擔之職務的尊位。
so that whatever he shall perceive himself to lose or to retain, this may be reckoned to be done not by the work of power, but by the justice of law. Besides, Pompeiana, a religious woman, who is known to have built a monastery in her own house, has complained that the mother of her once son-in-law, now deceased, wishes to annul his testament, so that the last will of her son may be brought to nought. On which account, out of fatherly charity, we have deemed it necessary to exhort your Glory, that you should gladly, with justice preserved, lend yourself to pious causes, and that whatever reason of law grants to these, you should kindly command to be observed. And we beseech the Lord that He may propitiously direct the way of your life, and dispose with prosperity the dignity of the administration you have undertaken.