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Licet omnium sanctorum, fratres carissimi, veneranda nostris sint studiis merita, præcipue tamen gloriosæ semperque virginia Dei Genitricis Mariæ toto nobis affectu est veneranda nativitas, etc. Desinit: Habetis adjutricem vestri certaminis hanc beatam et gloriosissimam, sub cujus protectione confugiatis, Virginem et Matrem, etc. Festum Nativitatis beatae Mariæ Virginis non nisi octavo sæculo celebrari coepit in Ecclesia; nihilque habet Maximianae venæ; sed puerilibus insipidisque sententiis auctor eum concinnavit. Non miror amanuensis inscitiam, qui in codice Parisiensi 3820 eloquentissimo sancto præsuli Taurinensi iuscripsit.
「至親愛的弟兄們，雖然眾聖徒可敬的功德都值得我們熱心追慕，但尤當以全部的情感敬禮那榮耀且永遠童貞的神之母瑪利亞的誕生」等等。結尾為：「你們在爭戰中有這位有福且至榮耀的童貞聖母為助佑，你們可投奔於她的護庇之下」等等。至聖童貞瑪利亞誕辰的節慶直到第八世紀才開始在教會中慶祝；此篇毫無馬克西姆斯的文脈，作者卻用幼稚無味的句子拼湊而成。抄寫者的無知我並不希奇，他在巴黎 3820 號抄本中把它題給那至為雄辯的都靈聖主教。
'Although the venerable merits of all the saints, most beloved brethren, are for our zeal, yet especially with all our affection is to be venerated the nativity of the glorious and ever-virgin Mother of God, Mary,' etc. It ends: 'You have as helper of your contest this blessed and most glorious Virgin and Mother, under whose protection you may take refuge,' etc. The feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary did not begin to be celebrated in the Church until the eighth century; and it has nothing of the Maximian vein, but the author patched it together with childish and insipid sentences. I do not wonder at the ignorance of the copyist, who in the Paris codex 3820 inscribed it to the most eloquent holy prelate of Turin.