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I Gregorius Maximo episcopo Salonitano. i Alia quidem scripta ad fraternitatem tuam antea feceramus; a sed tempore quo homines tuos quos ad nos misisti relaxare voluimus scripsisse te quibusdam nostris comperimus quod b Veteranum preshyierum atque Optatum defensorem tunc minime in causa transmiseris, et ideo ea quæ cum eis aeta sunt non debere subsistere. Sed et Thomas, Ecclesiæ tuæ defensor, sibi verbo a te dictum perhibuit. Ex qua re jam nec præsentium portitoribus judicavimus esse credendum, ne de ipsis quoque post haec similiter diceretur.
額我略致薩洛納主教瑪克西穆斯。我們此前確曾致函閣下的弟兄之情；但當我們願意遣返您派來我們這裡的人時，我們得知您曾致函我們的某些人，說您當時根本未曾派遣司鐸維特拉努斯及護衛官奧普塔圖斯來辦理此案，因此那些與他們一同辦理之事不當有效。而您教會的護衛官托馬斯也稟報，這是您親口對他說的。因這緣故，我們已判定：連現今這些信件的攜帶者也不當被信賴，免得此後對他們同樣說出這樣的話。
Gregory to Maximus, bishop of Salona. We had indeed previously written other letters to your Fraternity; but at the time when we wished to send back your men whom you had sent to us, we learned that you had written to certain of our people that you had at that time by no means sent the priest Veteranus and the defensor Optatus in the case, and that therefore the things which were done with them ought not to stand. And Thomas too, the defensor of your Church, reported that this had been said to him by you by word of mouth. From which circumstance we have judged that not even the bearers of the present letters are to be believed, lest afterward the same thing be said likewise concerning them also.
805:2
Quia ergo hæc res nos valde fecit ambigere, et cantos esse debere præmonuit, si causam vultis dicere, instructam de cætero personam « cum mandato 1226 legaliter facto, tuis ac presbyterorum seu diaconorum d in testimonium subscriptionibus roborato, gestisque ex more indito, transmittite, ut quidquid cum ea actum fuerit possit jure subsistere. Nam nos non solum tibi, set! etiam omnibus quod justum legitimumque fuerit parati sumus, Deo juvante, per omnia custodire; tantum est ut tu quod lege pra cipitur facere non omittas.
既然此事使我們大為躊躇，並警示我們理當謹慎，若您願意為此案申辯，此後就當差來一位受過指示的人，附以合法擬就的委任狀，經您本人以及作為見證的司鐸或執事的簽署所確認，並按慣例附有記錄，使凡與該人所辦之事得以合法有效。因為我們準備好，藉天主的幫助，不僅為您、也為眾人，在萬事上持守那公義合法的；只願您不忽略去做那律法所規定之事。
Since therefore this matter has made us greatly hesitate, and warned us that we ought to be cautious, if you wish to plead the case, send henceforth an instructed person, with a mandate lawfully drawn up, corroborated by the subscriptions of yourself and of the priests or deacons as witnesses, and drawn up with records according to custom, so that whatever is done with that person may be able rightly to stand. For we are prepared, with God's help, to preserve through all things what is just and lawful not only for you but also for everyone; only let it be that you do not omit to do what is prescribed by law.