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Gregorius II Hospitoni duci Darbarici-norunl. Cum de gente vestra nemo Christianus sit, in huc scio quia omni gente tua es melior, quia tu in ea Christianus inveniris. Dum enim Barbaricini omnes, ut insensata animalia vivant, Deum verum nesciant, ligna autem et lapides adorent, in eo ipso quod Deum verum colis, quantum omnes antecedas ostendis. Sed iidem quam percepisti etiam bonis acUbus exsequere et verbis, et Christo, cui credis, offer quod praevales, ut ad cum quoscunque potueras adducas, eusque baptizari facias, et aeternam vitam diligere admoneas.
額我略致巴巴利契尼人的首領奧斯皮托。既然你的民族中無一人是基督徒，我便知你在此事上勝過你全族的人，因為你在他們中間被發現為基督徒。因為當眾巴巴利契尼人如無知的走獸般度日、不認識真神、反倒敬拜木石之時，正是在你敬拜真神這一點上，你顯明你如何遠遠超越他們眾人。但你既已領受，也當以善行善言隨之而行，並將你所能的獻與你所信的基督，好使你能將所能引來之人都帶到祂那裡，使他們受洗，並勸他們愛慕永生。
Gregory to Hospito, duke of the Barbaricini. Since of your nation no one is a Christian, in this I know that you are better than all your nation, because you are found to be a Christian among them. For while all the Barbaricini live like senseless animals, know not the true God, but adore wood and stones, in this very thing that you worship the true God, you show how far you surpass them all. But that which you have received, follow out also with good deeds and words, and offer to Christ, in whom you believe, what you are able, so that you may lead to Him whomsoever you can, and cause them to be baptized, and admonish them to love eternal life.
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Quod si fortasse ipse agere non potes, quia ad aHud occuparis, salutans peto ut bominibus nostris, quos illuc transmisimus, fratri scilicet et 702 coepiscopo meo Felici, filioque meo Cyriaco servo Dei, solatiari in omnibus debeas, ut dum eorum labores adjuvas, devotionem tuam omni. potenti Domino ostendas; et ipse tibi in bonis actibus adjutor sit, cujus tu in bono opere famulis solatiaris. Benedictionem vero sancti Petri apostoli per eos vobis transmisimus, quam peto ut debeatis benigne suscipere. i Mense Junio, indictione 42.
但你自己若或因忙於別事而不能行此，我便問候你，並求你在凡事上惠然安慰我們差往那裡的人——即我的弟兄兼同僚主教斐理斯，及我的兒子、神的僕人契黎雅谷——好使你在協助他們勞苦的同時，向全能的主顯出你的虔誠；願那位——你所安慰其僕人於善工的主——在善行上作你的幫助者。我們已藉他們將聖使徒伯多祿的祝福寄與你，求你當仁慈地領受。時值六月，第十二丁稅期。
But if perchance you yourself cannot do this, because you are occupied with other things, I greet you and ask that you deign in all things to comfort our men whom we have sent there — namely my brother and fellow bishop Felix, and my son Cyriacus, servant of God — so that, while you aid their labors, you may show your devotion to the almighty Lord; and may He be your helper in good deeds, whose servants you comfort in a good work. And the blessing of the holy apostle Peter we have sent to you through them, which I ask that you ought kindly to receive. In the month of June, in the twelfth indiction.