Letter 10056: **From:** Gregory I, Bishop of Rome
To Amandinus the Domesticus [a household official].
He commends Gregorius, a former prefect.
Gregory to Amandinus the Domesticus.
Trusting that Your Glory always shows yourself devoted to the comfort of your friends, we are eager to commend to you the causes of those whom you love. And therefore, greeting you, we ask that our glorious son Gregorius may find you there such as he had you here; and that, both with our glorious son Leontius and elsewhere wherever it shall be necessary, he may obtain the comforts of Your Glory, and may find great consolation in you; and that, so far as is possible, lest he be subject to any unjust affliction or burden, the solicitude of Your Glory may with vigilant zeal provide that he may strive to avert this by tranquil and well-considered counsel: so that, while he has you, as is fitting, as his helpers, both he and we may be the more able to recognize that, just as we presume of Your Glory, you display friendships toward us that are not to the face, but - which is greatly praiseworthy - pure. [...]
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Latin / Greek Original
AD AMANDINUM DUMESTICUM.
Cregorium expreſectum commendat.
Gregorius Amandino domestico.
Conſfidentes quod gloria vestra se in amicorum $10-
rum solatiis devotam semper exhibeat, eorum vobis
causas commendare quos diligitis studemus. Alque
ideo 8alutantes pelimus ut gloriosus ſilius noster Gre-
gorius, * quales vos hic habvit, illic tales inveniat; et
tam apud gloriosum filium nostrum Leontium, quam
alibi quocunque necesse fuerit, gloriz vestrz solatia
conSequatur, ac magnam in vobis consolationem
inveniat; et quantum possibile est, ne cuiquam inju-
Slz possit afflictioni vel gravamini s8ubjacere, gloriz
veslrz 80llicitudo $studio vigilanti provideat ut tran-
quillo maturoque hoe 8tudeat consilio declinare:
quatenus dum vos, sicut decet, adjutores habuerit, et
ipse et nos amplius cognoscere valeamus, quia sicut
de gloria veswa presumimus, non ad faciem, sed,
quod est valde laudabile, puras nostris amicitias exhi-
bere. |
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