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Gregorius Romano patricio et exarcho Italiae. Obitum Lanrenlii Ecclesiae Mediolanensis episcopi excellentiam vestram jam credimus cognovisse. Et quia, quantum ex cleri relatione didicimus, in Constantio filio nostro, diacono ejusdem Ecclesia, omnium consistit electio, necesse fuit pro servanda consuetudine a militem Ecclesiae nostræ dirigere, qui euri in quo omnium voluntates atque consensum concorditer convenire cognoverit, b a suis episcopis. sicut vetus mos exigit, cum nostro tamen assen u faciat consecrari.
額我略致羅馬貴族兼義大利總督。我們相信閣下已得知米蘭教會的主教勞倫提烏斯逝世的消息。又因據我們從聖職人員的報告所知，眾人的選舉都落在我們的兒子、該教會的執事君士坦提烏斯身上，故為守慣例，必須差派我們教會的一位使者，使他在確認眾人的意願與贊同和諧一致地歸於某人之後，照古老的慣例，由該人本地的主教們、並經我們的認可，將他祝聖。
Gregory to the Roman patrician and exarch of Italy. We believe that your Excellency has already learned of the death of Laurentius, bishop of the Church of Milan. And because, so far as we have learned from the report of the clergy, the election of all rests upon our son Constantius, deacon of that same Church, it was necessary, for the preserving of custom, to dispatch a soldier of our Church, who may cause him, in whom he shall have ascertained the wishes and consent of all to concur in harmony, to be consecrated by his own bishops, as ancient custom requires, yet with our assent.
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Proinde paterna dilectione persolventes debitum salutationis officium, quaesumus ut praedicto Constantio, seu fuerit consecratus episcopus necne, excellentia vestra, ubi necesse fuerit, suum dignetur impendere justitia favente c solatium, quatenus hæc vos merces et hic apud inimicos vestros exaltet, et in futura vos vita apud Deum prævenienter commendet. Mens est enim proprius olimque mihi magna fuit familiarilate conjunctus. E' vos quos nostros cogioscitis, habere ut vestros et peculiariter diligere debetis. (Vide sup. ep. 29, 50.)
因此，我們以父愛履行問候的應盡之職，懇請閣下在必要時俯允——無論前述的君士坦提烏斯已否受祝聖為主教——本著公義向他伸出援助；使這善行既在此世於您的仇敵面前高舉您，又在來世於天主面前預先為您美言。因為他是我的舊識，早已與我以深厚的情誼相結。凡您認得是屬我們的人，您就當視之為屬您自己的，並當以特別的情愛去愛他們。（見上文書信第二十九、五十。）
Accordingly, discharging with paternal love the due office of greeting, we ask that your Excellency may deign, where it shall be necessary, to lend to the aforesaid Constantius—whether he shall have been consecrated bishop or not—your support, justice favoring it; so that this good deed may both exalt you here before your enemies, and in the life to come commend you beforehand before God. For he is my own, and long ago was joined to me in great familiarity. And those whom you recognize as ours, you ought to hold as your own and to love with special affection. (See above, ep. 29, 50.)