Letter 5: [Pope Gelasius I (r. 492-496) writes to Ereleua, the mother of King Theodoric the Great.

V. Gelasius to Ereleuva. [1] I marvel that Felix and Petrus, clerics of the church of Nola, were able to mislead the judgment of Your Sublimity, so that, in defiance of divine and human laws, rejecting the privileges of the Church and suppressing their clerical title, they hastened to the public courts -- although by imperial enactments it has been decreed that, among persons of this kind, whatever the Apostolic See has determined ought to be observed. Not only did they mock my lord and son, the magnificent king, demanding, like laymen, royal commands against their own priest, but they even, employing barbarians under the name of your house, raged for the ruin and death of that same bishop of theirs -- when, having already for just causes been convicted, in that they were being compelled to repay the Church's money, a great part of the sum had been remitted to them through the kindness of their own pontiff. Since, therefore, Your Sublimity perceives that they have gone forward even to the insult of the Apostolic See, having received the office of my greeting, we beg that you allow the privileges of the Blessed Apostle Peter, which antiquity has granted by divine and human laws, to be undermined by no one's deceit.

V. GELASIUS ERELEUVAE. [1] Felicem et Petrum Nolanae ecclesiae clericos surripere potuisse sensibus vestrae sublimitatis admiror, ut contra divinas humanasque leges ecclesiastica privilegia respuentes suppresso nomine clericali ad iudicia publica convolarent, quando imperialibus constitutis inter huiusmodi personas quicquid sedes apostolica censuisset, decretum fuerit oportere servari, non solum domno filio meo, magnifico regi illudentes, veluti laici contra proprium praecepta regia deposcerent sacerdotem, sed etiam adhibitis barbaris sub nomine domus vestrae in eiusdem praesulis sui perniciem necemque saevierint, cum iustis ex causis ante convicti, quod ecclesiasticam pecuniam reddere cogerentur, magna sit eis sui humanitate pontificis quantitas relaxata. quia ergo pervidet vestra sublimitas etiam in apostolicae sedis contumeliam eos fuisse progressos, officio meae salutationis accepto precamur, ut privilegia beati apostoli Petri, quae divinis humanisque legibus concessit antiquitas, nulla patiamini subreptione convelli.