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Gregorius Leontio elconsuli. Scientes gratia paterna vos scripta suscipere, si illud peragere studeamus, gloriam vestram ultro non est dubium operari, quia filiorum nostrorum desideria non patimur contristari.
額我略致前執政官萊翁提烏。既知你以父親般的恩情領受我們的書信，倘若我們竭力成全那事，那麼無疑我們是自願地成就你的榮耀，因為我們不容我們兒女的心願遭受憂傷。
Gregory to Leontius, ex-consul. Knowing that with paternal grace you receive our writings, if we strive to accomplish that thing, there is no doubt that we work your glory of our own accord, because we do not suffer the desires of our sons to be saddened.
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Et ideo quia gloriosus filius noster Apollonius, magister militum, lator præsentium, nostris se apud vos voluit apicibus commendari, salutantes gloriam vestram paterna dilectione, petimus ut salva ratione gratiam vestri favoris inveniat, et patrocinii opem in quocunque necesse fuerit consequatur, quatenus dum gloria vestra ea quæ sponte consuevit impendere nostrae quoque commendationi praestiterit, et ipse se optatum in vobis 1077 gaudeat invenire subsidium, et nos uberes sincerissimae bonilati vestrae gratias refe..annus.
因此，既然我們榮耀的兒子、軍務長官阿波羅尼烏，就是本函持信人，願藉我們的書信被薦於你，我們就以父親般的愛向你的榮耀致意，並請求：在保全正當之理的前提下，願他尋得你恩情的眷顧，並在凡有需要之處獲得你庇護的援助；好使當你的榮耀把它素常自願施予的，也施予我們的薦舉時，他自己既得歡喜在你身上尋得所盼望的扶助，我們也向你至誠的良善獻上豐盛的感謝。
And therefore, since our glorious son Apollonius, master of soldiers, the bearer of these presents, wished himself to be commended to you by our letters, saluting your glory with paternal love, we ask that, sound reason being preserved, he may find the favor of your grace, and may obtain the help of your patronage in whatever shall be necessary; so that, while your glory shall have bestowed upon our commendation also those things which of its own accord it is accustomed to bestow, both he himself may rejoice to find in you the wished-for support, and we may return abundant thanks to your most sincere goodness.