Letter 2031: I have heard reports of difficulties between some of you and the tribune Constantius, who commands you.

Gregory the Great (Wisigothic)Unknown|c. 591 AD|Pope Gregory the Great|AI-assisted
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To all the soldiers of Naples.

On the obedience to be shown to the tribune Constantius.

Gregory to all the soldiers of Naples.

The highest praise of military service, among its other good merits, is this: to render obedience to the interests of the holy commonwealth, and to comply with whatever has been usefully commanded for it; just as we have now learned that your devotion has done, which obeyed our letters, by which we appointed the distinguished man Constantius, the tribune, to take charge of the guarding of the city, and which showed a fitting obedience of military devotion. Therefore we have taken care that you be admonished by the present letter, that to the aforesaid distinguished man, the tribune, as indeed you have done, you ought to render every obedience for the advantage of our most serene lords and for the preservation of the city, so that whatever is recognized to have been well done by you up to now, you may increase through the vigilance and watchfulness of the present time.

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Latin / Greek Original

AD CUNCTOS MILITES NEAPOLITANOS.
De obedientia Constantio tribuno exhibenda, :
Gregorius universis militibus Neapolitanis.
Summa militie laus inter alia bona merita hec
esl, obedientiam $anctz reipublice ' utilitatibus ex-
hibere, quodque <ibi utiliter imperatum HY ſuerit,
oblemperare ; $icut et nunc devotionem vestram fe-
cisse didicimus, quz epistolis nosiris, quibus ma-
gnificum virum Constantium tribunum cu<todi#e Civi-
tatis deputaviraus preesse, paruit, 6t congruam mi-
litaris devotionis obedientiam demon$travit. Unde
$cript.s yos presentibus curavimus admonendos, uli
predicto viro maghilico tribuno, sicut et ſfecistis,
omnem debeatis pro $erenissimorum dominorum
ulilitate vel conservanda civitate obedientiam ex-
bibere, quatenus quidquid a vobis hactenus bene
geslum agnoscitur, per prxsentis temporis vigilantiam
ac Sollicitudinem anzmentelis.

Revision history

  1. 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import

    Initial corpus import from modern gregory great retranslated v1.

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