Letter 11089: I am writing to you as well about the unjust encroachment on Faustus's property.
To John, Bishop of Syracuse.
On the boundaries of the estates of Faustus, unjustly trespassed upon.
Gregory to John, Bishop of Syracuse.
[The body of the letter is not preserved in the source text; what follows is the editorial critical apparatus.]
Letter 40 [otherwise 34, indiction 6]. The Vatican codex gives "corruption of the blood" (corruptionem sanguinis); other manuscripts give "rupture" (ruptionem), or "ruptures of the blood" (ruptiones sanguinis). See above, letter 35.
Letter 41 [otherwise 35]. That is, "let it be restored" (restituatur). In the same sense in Cassiodorus, Variae, book 8, letter 25: "we order the estates... to be reformed." Bernard likewise, in his sermon on Saint Martin: "peace having been reformed" (that is, restored), [...] in peace [...].
Letter 42 [otherwise 36]. Namely, the man who has been despoiled must, before all else, be restored, according to the strict letter of the law.
Letter 43 [otherwise 37]. So the Vatican codex A and the Remigian codex.
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Latin / Greek Original
AD JOANNEM SYRACUSANUM EPISCOPUNM.
De possessionum Fausti finibus injuste pervasis.
Gregorius Joanui episcopo Syracusano.
Eersr. XL. [Al. 34, ind. 6]. * Vatic. Det E, cor-
ruptionem sanguinis. Alii, ruptionem, vel ruptiones
$arquinis. Vide, Supra, epist. 35.
Ferisr, XL | Al. 35]. — * Hoe est, res/ituatur.
Eodem $ensu apud Cassivdorum , lib. vin Var., epist.
25, massas.... precipimus reſormari. Bernardus quo-
que, $erm, de sancto Martino : reſormata pace (id est
"eslitula), 1m pace qui-vil.
Eeisr. XL [Al, 36]. — © Nimirum <poliatus ante
omnia restituendus est, juxta juris apices.
Eertsr, XLIII (Al. 37]. — * Na Vatic. A et Remig.
Revision history
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Initial corpus import from modern gregory great retranslated v1.
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