Gregory to Azimarchus, the scribo. That the bearer of the present letter, our glorious son Gregory, came late to Sicily, he did not put off by his own will, but was rendered so weak by infirmity of body that he was scarcely able to recover over many days. The signs of that weakness you yourselves will still recognize in him even now. But as soon as he had somewhat recovered, he did not neglect to come thither, as he had promised to your Magnitude. This we have seen fit to write in these lines, lest, believing him to have put it off of his own accord, you should suppose this delay of his to have perhaps been made by design.