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Leo the Great, Letters

Letters CXXXIV–CXXXV

sermonem atque incongruum; et qui forte non ita possit ardenter scienterque transferri, sicut causa poscebat. Saluta eam quae tecum est fraternitatem. Te quae nobiscum est salutat in Domino. Et alia manu: Valere te, et nostri meminisse, domine, precor, dilectissime et desideratissime frater.

[…] and incongruous speech; and because perhaps it could not be translated as zealously and knowledgeably as the matter required. Greet the brotherhood that is with you. The one that is with us greets you in the Lord. And in another hand: I pray, my lord, most beloved and most longed-for brother, that you may fare well and remember us.

EPISTOLA CXXXIV.

LETTER CXXXIV.

AD MARCIANUM AUGUSTUM.

TO MARCIAN AUGUSTUS.

LEO episcopus MARCIANO Augusto.

Leo, bishop, to Marcian Augustus.

CAP. I. — Quod saepissime multa jam experimenta docuerunt sanctum pietatis vestrae studium circa religionem Christianam gloriosis perseverat et crescit augmentis; et haec fides clementiae vestrae non solum me, sed et omnes Domini sacerdotes consolatur et roborat; dum in Christianissimo principe sacerdotale experimur affectum. Quem si Orientalium partium sacerdotes studeant imitari, nihil scandalorum neque pax, neque fides Christiana patietur. Unde cum Constantinopolitanus episcopus ad omnem pietatis profectum praesenti clementiae vestrae doceatur exemplo, si fideliter vestris acquiescat hortatibus, habet in me sincerae gratiae animum: tantum ut quod verbis spondet perficiat. Si vero, quae Deo et pietati vestrae displicent, pertinaci intentione delegerit, salva mansuetudinis vestrae reverentia, utar cum omnibus, et pro omnibus, vobis quoque annitentibus, adversum superbientem liberiore constantia,

CHAP. I. — As very many proofs have now often shown, the holy zeal of your piety for the Christian religion persists and grows with glorious increase; and this faith of your clemency consoles and strengthens not only me but all the priests of the Lord, while in a most Christian prince we experience a priestly affection. If the priests of the Eastern parts are eager to imitate him, neither peace nor the Christian faith will suffer any scandals. Hence, since the bishop of Constantinople is taught by the present example of your clemency towards every advance in piety, if he faithfully complies with your exhortations, he has in me a mind of sincere goodwill: only let him carry out what he promises in words. But if with stubborn intent he chooses what displeases God and your piety, then, saving the reverence due to your gentleness, I will use, with all and for all, and with you also striving alongside, a freer firmness against the proud one,

Editors' notes and page, col. 1094

Footnotes

(h) ‹dilectissime et desideratissime› · printed under col 1093

Ultimam hanc vocem, quae additur a Quesn. et Jano ex suis codd. Petavius, Bucherius, et Labbeus omiserunt.

This last word, which is added by Quesnel and by Janus from their manuscripts, Petau, Bucherius and Labbe omitted.

(i) ‹EPISTOLA› · printed under col 1093

Alias 106. Quae autem antea 134 erat, nunc 165. Scripta 15 Aprilis an. 454.

Formerly 106. The one that was formerly 134 is now 165. Written 15 April in the year 454.

(j) ‹AD MARCIANUM AUGUSTUM› · printed under col 1093, running on under col 1094 (its call is not visible in the heading as printed; the note belongs to the letter's heading)

Exstat in mss. collect. Hispanicae, Isidorianae, 11, 12, 18, et 21 usque ad 24, nec non in exemplo Sichardi.

It is extant in the manuscripts of the Spanish and Isidorian collections, of collections 11, 12, 18, and 21 to 24, and also in Sichard's copy.

(k) ‹SYNOPSIS› · printed under col 1094

Hispanica hunc titulum praefert: Item Leonis ad Marcianum Augustum, ubi scribit de exsilio Eutychetis, ut ad secretiora loca eum transferret, quia ubi positus erat, adhuc prava docebat.

The Spanish collection carries this title: Likewise [a letter] of Leo to Marcian Augustus, where he writes about the exile of Eutyches, that he should move him to more secluded places, because where he had been placed he was still teaching perverse things.

(l) ‹in Christianissimo principe sacerdotale› · printed under col 1094

Mss. collect. 21, exprimit affectum.

The manuscripts of collection 21, exprimit affectum.

(m) ‹sacerdotes studeant imitari› · printed under col 1094

Ita omnes editi cum mss. collect. 12, 18, et 24, quibus concinit cod. Vindebon. Hisp., in quo erronee legitur, nihil scandalum. Hic error ex arbitrio correctus fuit in Vat. Hisp. et Isid., aliisque inde proficiscentibus, nullum scandalum.

So all the editions, with the manuscripts of collections 12, 18 and 24, with which the Vienna manuscript of the Spanish collection agrees, in which is read erroneously nihil scandalum. This error was corrected at will in the Vatican Spanish and Isidorian manuscripts, and in others derived from them, nullum scandalum.

(n) ‹Unde cum Constantinopolitanus› · printed under col 1094

Mss. Vindebon. Hisp. et Vat. collect. 24, antistes. Mox in plerisque codd. inferioris aetatis, provectum praesentis, pro profectum praesenti.

The Vienna Spanish manuscript and the Vatican manuscript of collection 24, antistes. Shortly after, in most manuscripts of a later age, provectum praesentis for profectum praesenti.

(o) ‹si fideliter vestris acquiescat hortatibus› · printed under col 1094

Ita cum Merlino, Sichardo et Quesnello ms. Vat. collect. 24, cum in ms. Vindebon. Hisp. habet desideretur; in Vat. Hisp., Isid. et caeteris suppletum fuit habebit, ut etiam legitur in vulgatis ante Quesn.

So, with Merlin, Sichard and Quesnel, the Vatican manuscript of collection 24, whereas in the Vienna Spanish manuscript habet is missing; in the Vatican Spanish, the Isidorian and the others habebit was supplied, as is also read in the common editions before Quesnel.

(p) ‹tantum ut quod verbis spondet› · printed under col 1094

Auctoritate plurium nostrorum codicum delevimus corde, quam vocem editi ex Merlino cum Sichardo ac mss. collect. 24 praemittunt ante verbum perficiat.

On the authority of most of our manuscripts we have deleted corde, a word which the editions from Merlin, with Sichard and the manuscripts of collection 24, place before the verb perficiat.

(q) ‹adversum superbientem liberiore› · printed under col 1094, running on under col 1095

Monuit Quesnellus in suis mss. legi, liberiore conscientia, quia (quod saepe dicendum est) male pullulantia fraterna charitate oportet resecari, gloriosissime imperator. Idipsum etiam exhibent nostri codd. Vat. Hisp., Isid. cum mss. collect. 11 et 21. Praetulimus tamen lectionem editorum ex Merlino, quam in Vindebon. Hisp. et Vat. collect. 24 ac Sichardo reperimus. Restituimus tantum mallem pro malim, quod apud Quesnellum dumtaxat legebatur. Illa autem Leonis, quod saepe dicendum est, ea videntur respicere, quae in anterioribus ad Marcianum litteris 78, similiter ac in textu hujus epistolae de Anatolio scripserat c. 5: Quem opto magis irreprehensibiliter agentem diligere, quam in hac praesumptione... perdurare.

Quesnel noted that in his manuscripts one reads liberiore conscientia, quia (quod saepe dicendum est) male pullulantia fraterna charitate oportet resecari, gloriosissime imperator. Our Vatican Spanish and Isidorian manuscripts, with the manuscripts of collections 11 and 21, also show the same. We have nevertheless preferred the reading of the editions from Merlin, which we found in the Vienna Spanish manuscript, the Vatican manuscript of collection 24, and Sichard. We have only restored mallem for malim, which was read in Quesnel alone. Those words of Leo, "as must often be said", seem to refer to what he had written about Anatolius in his earlier letter 78 to Marcian, as also in the text of this letter, c. 5: Whom I wish rather to love acting irreproachably than [to see him] persist in this presumption...

Editors' prose

SYNOPSIS. — I. Laudato Marciano, promittit Anatolio gratiam suam, si resipiscat. — II. Rogat ut Eutychen virus suum in exsilio spargentem ad secretiora loca releget. — III. De paschalis diei inquisitione gratias agit, et ut catholicis faveat precatur.

SYNOPSIS. — I. Having praised Marcian, he promises Anatolius his favour if he comes to his senses. — II. He asks him to banish Eutyches, who is spreading his poison in exile, to more secluded places. — III. He gives thanks for the inquiry into the paschal day, and prays him to favour the Catholics.

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running head: 1093 EPISTOLA CXXXIV. 1094 (across the page; this column carries "[EPISTO]LA CXXXIV. 1094")
marginal letters: A ‹formem sermonem atque incongruum›; B ‹CAP. I. — Quod saepissime›; C ‹omnibus, et pro omnibus›; D ‹(footnotes) collect. 24, cum in ms. Vindebon.›
old-edition numerals: 1275 after ‹sacerdotes›
signature: none
other: col 1094 opens with "formem", the tail of "in-" at the foot of col 1093, set whole (informem) in c1093_b. Letter CXXXIII (Proterius of Alexandria to Leo) ends here; Letter CXXXIV (Leo to Marcian) begins with its caption in this column. The synopsis under the caption is italic, headed "SYNOPSIS" (call k).

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quem (quod saepe dicendum est) mallem pro sanctis actibus fraterna charitate complecti, gloriosissime imperator.

whom (as must often be said) I would rather embrace with brotherly charity for holy deeds, most glorious emperor.

CAP. II. — Quia vero suggestiones meas pro tranquillitate catholicae fidei libenter accipitis, significatum mihi esse fratris et coepiscopi mei Juliani sermone cognoscite, Eutychen impium pro suis quidem meritis exsulare; sed in ipso suae damnationis loco multa adversus integritatem catholicam blasphemiarum desperatius venena profundere; et quod in illo totus mundus exhorruit atque damnavit, impudentia majore, ut innocentes decipere possit, evomere. Plenum itaque rationis existimo ut vestra clementia ad longinquiora eum jubeat et secretiora transferri.

CHAP. II. — Since you gladly receive my suggestions for the tranquillity of the Catholic faith, know that it has been made known to me by the word of my brother and fellow bishop Julian that the impious Eutyches is indeed in exile, as his deserts require; but that in the very place of his condemnation he pours out ever more desperately many poisons of blasphemy against the Catholic integrity; and that what the whole world shuddered at and condemned in him he vomits forth with greater impudence, so as to be able to deceive the innocent. I therefore consider it entirely reasonable that your clemency should order him to be removed to more distant and more secluded places.

Monasterio vero ejus Constantinopoli constituto, in quo habitatores monachi evangelica apostolicaque doctrina crebrius sunt et plenius roborandi, salubriter (ut arbitror) fiet, si is qui ipsi monasterio praepositus esse dicitur, a societate veneratoris vestri Juliani episcopi, quem in speculis propter fidem illic esse constitui, non recedat: cujus assidua visitatione profectus servorum Dei illic habitantium possit augeri.

As for his monastery situated at Constantinople, in which the monks who dwell there must be strengthened more often and more fully by the evangelical and apostolic teaching, it will be done salutarily (as I think) if he who is said to be placed over that monastery does not depart from the company of your venerator, Bishop Julian, whom I have appointed to be on the watch there for the sake of the faith: so that by his constant visiting the progress of the servants of God who dwell there may be increased.

CAP. III. — Petitionem autem meam de festivitate poschali gaudeo ita a vestra pietate susceptam, ut confestim agentem in rebus Alexandriam mitteretis de errore admonendo, quem sanctae memoriae Theophili constitutio videtur inferre. De qua re, sicut scribere dignamini, quidquid a pietatis vestrae notitiam perlatum fuerit, jubete me nosse: ut de observantia quam non licet esse diversam, quid potissimum sit tenendum, Ecclesia universalis agnoscat. Precor autem

CHAP. III. — I rejoice that my petition about the paschal festival has been so received by your piety that you at once sent an agens in rebus to Alexandria to give warning about the error which the ordinance of Theophilus of holy memory seems to bring in. Whatever is brought to the notice of your piety on this matter, as you deign to write, order me to be informed of it: so that the universal Church may know what above all is to be held concerning an observance which may not be diverse. And I pray […]

Editors' notes and page, col. 1095

Footnotes

(q) continued from col 1094, set in n1094.

(a) ‹libenter accipitis, significatum› · printed under col 1095

Codices Vat. Hisp., Isid. et collect. 11 ac 21, significatum mihi fratris quem excepistis piissime, Juliani sermone cognoscite. Lectionem a Quesnello inductam retinuimus, cum a nostris codd. Vindebon. Hisp. ac collect. 24 ac exemplis Merlini et Sichardi confirmetur. Solum in nostris codicibus et Sichardo verbum esse desideratur. Vulgati ante Quesnellum utramque lectionem simul praeferunt.

The Vatican Spanish and Isidorian manuscripts and those of collections 11 and 21, significatum mihi fratris quem excepistis piissime, Juliani sermone cognoscite. We have kept the reading introduced by Quesnel, since it is confirmed by our Vienna Spanish manuscript and that of collection 24 and by the copies of Merlin and Sichard. Only in our manuscripts and in Sichard is the word esse missing. The common editions before Quesnel give both readings together.

(b) ‹quod in illo totus mundus› · printed under col 1095

Ita Vindebon. Hisp. ac Vat. collect. 11 cum editis Concilior. Alias, horruit.

So the Vienna Spanish manuscript and the Vatican manuscript of collection 11, with the editions of the Councils. Elsewhere, horruit.

Sic Merlinus, Sichardus, et Quesnellus cum mss. Vindebon. Hisp. ac Vat. collect. 24. Antiquiores editi, ad longinquiora loca. Monet Quesnellus in plerisque suis codd. haberi, ad tutiora, quod nos invenimus in Vat. Hisp. ac in mss. collect. 11 et 21, et solus cod. Vat. Isid. praefert, ad tutiora loca eum.

So Merlin, Sichard and Quesnel, with the Vienna Spanish manuscript and the Vatican manuscript of collection 24. The older editions, ad longinquiora loca. Quesnel notes that most of his manuscripts have ad tutiora, which we have found in the Vatican Spanish manuscript and in the manuscripts of collections 11 and 21; and the Vatican Isidorian manuscript alone gives ad tutiora loca eum.

(d) ‹secretiora transferri. Monasterio› · printed under col 1095

Quesnellus addit praepositionem de, quam non tam anteriorum editionum quam plurium nostrorum codicum auctoritate delevimus. Dein duo mss., salubriter id fiet, ut arbitror, si, etc.

Quesnel adds the preposition de, which we have deleted on the authority not so much of the earlier editions as of most of our manuscripts. Then two manuscripts, salubriter id fiet, ut arbitror, si, etc.

(e) ‹CAP. III. — Petitionem› · printed under col 1095

Ita ex Merlino editi et nostri codd. Vindebon. Hisp. ac Vat. collect. 24 cum Sichardo, qui solum omittunt meam. Mss. Vat. Hisp. et Isid. cum caeteris inde profectis: Petitionem autem de festivitate paschalis gaudii ita novi a vestra pietate susceptam.

So the editions from Merlin, and our Vienna Spanish manuscript and the Vatican manuscript of collection 24, with Sichard, which only omit meam. The Vatican Spanish and Isidorian manuscripts, with the others derived from them: Petitionem autem de festivitate paschalis gaudii ita novi a vestra pietate susceptam.

(f) ‹ut confestim agentem in rebus› · printed under col 1095, running on under col 1096

Vulgati ante Quesn. cum uno ms. collect. 21 addunt Nectarium, quod ignorant alii codd., et Quesnellus jure expunxit. Nectarius enim agens in rebus cum Marciani et Anatolii litteris Romam missus fuerat, ut ex titulo sequentis epistolae palam fiet. Mox in Vindebon. Hisp., mittere, et de errore movendo. Hos errores correxit antiquus librarius, prout legitur in Vat. Hisp., Isid et aliis mss. ejusdem originis cum editionibus antiquioribus mitteret pro mitteretis et de errore movendo. Etiam apud Sichardum et in codd. collect. 24, qui ab Hispanica Gallicana non derivant legitur removendo. Retinuimus tamen lectionem a Quesnello inductam ex cod. Grim., admonendo, eo quod sequentia non absolutam correctionem erroris, sed monitionem de errore qui in Laterculo Theophili inesse videbatur factam indicent, ita ut quidquid hac de re Alexandrini responsuri sint, Leo sibi significandum petat.

The common editions before Quesnel, with one manuscript of collection 21, add Nectarium, which the other manuscripts do not know, and Quesnel rightly struck it out. For Nectarius, an agens in rebus, had been sent to Rome with the letters of Marcian and Anatolius, as will become plain from the title of the following letter. Shortly after, in the Vienna Spanish manuscript, mittere, and de errore movendo. An old copyist corrected these errors, as is read in the Vatican Spanish and Isidorian manuscripts and in other manuscripts of the same origin, with the older editions, mitteret for mitteretis and de errore movendo. Also in Sichard and in the manuscripts of collection 24, which do not derive from the Spanish Gallican collection, one reads removendo. We have nevertheless kept the reading introduced by Quesnel from the Grimani manuscript, admonendo, because what follows indicates not an outright correction of the error but a warning given about the error that seemed to be in the Table of Theophilus, so that Leo asks to be informed of whatever the Alexandrians will answer on this matter.

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running head: 1095 S. LEONIS MAGNI EPISTOLAE. 1096 (across the page; this column carries "1095 S. LEONIS MAGNI")
marginal letters: A ‹quem (quod saepe dicendum est)›; B ‹constituto, in quo habitatores›; C ‹tenendum, Ecclesia universalis›; D ‹(footnotes) editi, ad longinquiora loca›
old-edition numerals: 1276 after ‹eum›
signature: none
other: "au-" at the foot of col 1095 is set whole (autem) at the end of c1095_b; in note (f) "fue-" runs over into col 1096 ("rat"), set whole here.

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quod vestrae novi clementiae convenire, ut eos maxime tueamini contra omnes insidias, quos mihi et vestrae mansuetudini propter amorem fidei placere cognoscitis, ut eos Constantinopolitanus episcopus laedendi non habeat facultatem. Data decimo septimo kalendas Maii, Aetio et Studio viris clarissimis consulibus.

[…] (which I know befits your clemency) that you protect above all against every snare those whom you know to be pleasing to me and to your gentleness for their love of the faith, so that the bishop of Constantinople may have no opportunity of harming them. Given on the seventeenth day before the kalends of May, in the consulship of the most illustrious men Aetius and Studius.

EPISTOLA CXXXV.

LETTER CXXXV.

AD ANATOLIUM EPISCOPUM.

TO BISHOP ANATOLIUS.

Per Nectarium agentem in rebus.

By Nectarius, agens in rebus.

LEO episcopus ANATOLIO episcopo.

Leo, bishop, to Anatolius, bishop.

CAP. I. — Si firmo incommutabilique proposito dilectio tua curam gratiae communis habuisset, nihil profecto, quod ullam anxietatem tibi ingereret, exstitisset. Non enim sinebat ratio ut ejus charitatem spernerem, quem amore pacis et studio reparandae catholicae fidei inter ipsa episcopatus rudimenta juvissem, optans in ecclesiasticis curis talem habere consortem; ut mihi de sanctis praecessoribus tuis, nec Joannis spiritualem copiosamque doctrinam, nec auctoritatem Attici, nec industriam Procli, nec fidem beati FLAVIANI deesse sentirem: et ita studiis tuis uterer, ut nullus auderet vel fidei catholicae resultare, vel Nicaenis venerabilium Patrum regulis contraire. Sed cum in injuriam canonum, ut agnoscis, illa tentata sint, quae omnibus Ecclesiis scandalum maximum generarent; quid aptius ac modestius facerem, quam ut te primum, ut ab hac intentione

CHAP. I. — If your beloved self had cared for our common goodwill with a firm and unchangeable purpose, there would surely have been nothing to cause you any anxiety. For reason did not permit me to spurn the charity of one whom I had helped, out of love of peace and zeal for restoring the Catholic faith, in the very beginnings of his episcopate, wishing to have such a colleague in the Church's cares, so that I should feel that neither the spiritual and abundant teaching of John, nor the authority of Atticus, nor the diligence of Proclus, nor the faith of blessed FLAVIAN was lacking to me from your holy predecessors; and so to make use of your zeal that no one would dare either to resist the Catholic faith or to contravene the Nicene rules of the venerable Fathers. But since, as you acknowledge, those things were attempted to the injury of the canons which would produce the greatest scandal for all the churches, what more fitting and more moderate thing could I do than to [admonish] you first, that you should withdraw from this purpose […]

Editors' notes and page, col. 1096

Footnotes

(f) continued from col 1095, set in n1095.

(g) ‹laedendi non habeat facultatem. Data› · printed under col 1096

Cod. Griman., Quesnello annotante, vii kal. Maii, Tres nostri codd. collect. 11 ac 21, xvi kal Maii. Ms. Vat. collect. 24 et in margine editorum, xxii, kal. Martii.

The Grimani manuscript, as Quesnel notes, vii kal. Maii. Three of our manuscripts of collections 11 and 21, xvi kal Maii. The Vatican manuscript of collection 24, and the margin of the editions, xxii, kal. Martii.

(h) ‹EPISTOLA› · printed under col 1096

Alias 106. Quae autem antea 135 erat, nunc 166. Scripta 29 Maii an. 451.

Formerly 106. The one that was formerly 135 is now 166. Written 29 May in the year 451.

(i) ‹AD ANATOLIUM EPISCOPUM› · printed under col 1096

Exstat in mss. collect. 5, 11, 12, 13, 16, 18 et 21 usque ad 24.

It is extant in the manuscripts of collections 5, 11, 12, 13, 16, 18, and 21 to 24.

(j) ‹Per Nectarium agentem in rebus› · printed under col 1096

Haec invenimus in mss. collect. 5 et 12.

We found these words in the manuscripts of collections 5 and 12.

(k) ‹SYNOPSIS› · printed under col 1096

In tabula collect. 5, cap. 86, hic titulus legitur; Ad Anatolium episcopum de receptione Andreae archidiaconi et Euphratae, et de appetiti honoris Constantinopolitanae sedis abjectione rescriptum.

In the table of collection 5, chap. 86, this title is read: Reply to Bishop Anatolius on the reception of the archdeacon Andrew and of Euphrates, and on the renunciation of the honour sought for the see of Constantinople.

(l) ‹de sanctis praecessoribus tuis› · printed under col 1096

Codd. Vatt. collect. 11 et 34; nec non apud Hincmarum opuscul. 1, c. 23, edit. Paris. an. 1615, praecursoribus. Vide not. 1, 2 et 3 Quesn.

The Vatican manuscripts of collections 11 and 34, and also in Hincmar, opuscule 1, c. 23, Paris edition of the year 1615, praecursoribus. See Quesnel's notes 1, 2 and 3.

(m) ‹ut agnoscis, illa tentata sint› · printed under col 1096

Ita nostri codd. collect. 5, 11 et 24, atque exemplum Hincmari. Vulg., tentata sunt. Vide not. 4 Quesn. et in eam observationes nostras.

So our manuscripts of collections 5, 11 and 24, and Hincmar's copy. The common editions, tentata sunt. See Quesnel's note 4 and our observations on it.

Editors' prose

SYNOPSIS. — I. Intermissi litterarum commercii rationem reddit. — II. De destituto Andrea archidiacono et aliis in Ecclesia CP. restitutis laudat. — III. Majorem in agnoscenda culpa sinceritatem desiderat.

SYNOPSIS. — I. He gives the reason for the interrupted exchange of letters. — II. He gives praise for the restoration in the Church of Constantinople of the archdeacon Andrew, who had been deposed, and of others. — III. He wishes for greater sincerity in acknowledging the fault.

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running head: 1095 S. LEONIS MAGNI EPISTOLAE. 1096 (across the page; this column carries "MAGNI EPISTOLAE. 1096")
marginal letters: A ‹tem, quod vestrae novi›; B ‹CAP. I. — Si firmo›; C ‹cerem, quam ut te primum›; D ‹(footnotes) Martii. (h) Alias 106›
old-edition numerals: 1277 after ‹kalendas›
signature: none
other: col 1096 opens with "tem", the tail of "au-" at the foot of col 1095, set whole there. Letter CXXXIV ends and Letter CXXXV (Leo to Anatolius) begins in this column; its italic bearer line "Per Nectarium agentem in rebus." is set in layer 1 as part of the heading; the italic synopsis (call k) is here.

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recederes, fraterno animo missis litteris admonerem? Ad quas cum non rescriberes, ipse te a colloquii mei consortio separasti. Denique inde jam tacui, sed clementissimo principi, custodi fidei frequenti litterarum petitione suggessi, ut pro pace Ecclesiarum, quam tibi maxime prodesse cognoscis, haec quae nunc a tua dilectione facta sunt implerentur. Cui ineffabiles gratias ago, quod secundum eruditionem Spiritus sancti, cujus est virtute plenissimus, sacerdotali dignatur studere concordiae, sciens sibi orationes supplicantium copiosius profuturas, si famuli unius Domini in nullo sint a verae pacis unitate divisi.

[…] with a brotherly mind, by a letter sent to you? And since you did not reply to it, you yourself separated yourself from fellowship in converse with me. At length I was thenceforth silent, but by frequent petitions in letters I suggested to the most clement prince, the guardian of the faith, that for the peace of the churches, which you know to be most profitable to you, these things which have now been done by your beloved self should be carried out. To him I give unspeakable thanks, because, according to the teaching of the Holy Spirit, with whose power he is most fully filled, he deigns to be zealous for priestly concord, knowing that the prayers of those who make supplication will be the more abundantly profitable to him if the servants of the one Lord are in nothing divided from the unity of true peace.

CAP. II. — Quod ergo in Constantinopolitana Ecclesia quaedam in officiis clericorum corrrecta significas, ut et Aetium presbyterum in gratiam tuam affectionemque revocaveris, et Andream ab archidiaconi actione submoveris, nobis placuisse rescribo: quia existimationem tuam, ut optabam, plurimum erigit atque commendat.

CHAP. II. — As to your informing me, then, that certain things have been corrected in the Church of Constantinople in the offices of the clergy, so that you have both recalled the presbyter Aetius into your favour and affection and removed Andrew from the function of archdeacon, I write back that this has pleased us: because it greatly raises and commends your reputation, as I wished.

Et merito post correctionem in oblivionem perducitur, quod reprehensioni obnoxium videbatur, cum haereticorum provectione, et discipulorum sanctae memoriae Flaviani injuria gravareris, quae nunc simul ab omni offensione, cum tui, ut volui laude cessarunt: quia in ordinem suum, quae fuerant turbata, redierunt. Andream sane, qui rationabiliter archidiaconi est privatus officio, et Eufratam, qui sanctae memoriae Flaviani, ut comperi, improbus exstitit accusator, si professionibus plenissime scriptis non minus Eutychianam haeresim quam Nestorianum exsecrabile dogma condemnant, quoniam venia et praestanda correctis, presbyteros consecrabis: ut sibi remedium catholicae fidei sentiant profuisse, electo primitus et probato, qui archidiaconi officium possit implere, id est, quem nulla umquam praedictarum impietatum fama resperserit. Caeteri vero, quos par reatus involverat si veniam simili professione cum satisfactione deposcunt, suis ordinibus reformentur: his tantum ad officiorum primatum admissis, quos ab omni errore liberos fuisse constiterit.

And rightly, after correction, what seemed open to reproach is brought into oblivion, when you were burdened by the advancement of heretics and the injury done to the disciples of Flavian of holy memory; these things have now ceased together from all offence, with praise of you, as I wished: because the things that had been disturbed have returned to their order. As for Andrew, who was reasonably deprived of the office of archdeacon, and Eufratas, who, as I have learned, stood forth as the wicked accuser of Flavian of holy memory: if in professions written out most fully they condemn the Eutychian heresy no less than the execrable Nestorian dogma, then, since pardon is to be granted to those who are corrected, you shall consecrate them presbyters, so that they may feel that the remedy of the Catholic faith has profited them; but first someone should be chosen and approved who can fill the office of archdeacon, that is, one whom no report of the aforesaid impieties has ever stained. The rest, whom a like guilt had involved, if they ask for pardon with a similar profession and with satisfaction, are to be restored to their orders; only those being admitted to the first place among the offices who have been shown to have been free from all error.

CAP. III. — Illam autem culpam, quam de augenda potestate, aliena (ut asseris) adhortatione contraxeras, efficacius atque sincerius tua charitas deluisset, si quod tentari sine tua voluntate non potuit, non ad sola clericorum consilia transtulisses. Quia sicut in mala suasione delinquitur, ita et in mala consensione peccatur. Sed gratum mihi, frater

CHAP. III. — But that fault which you had contracted concerning the increase of power at another's urging (as you assert), your charity would have washed away more effectively and more sincerely if you had not shifted onto the counsels of the clergy alone what could not have been attempted without your will. For just as one offends in evil persuasion, so too one sins in evil consent. But it is welcome to me, brother […]

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Footnotes

(a) ‹fraterno animo missis› · printed under col 1097

Epist. 106.

Letter 106.

(b) ‹sacerdotali› · printed under col 1097

Al., dignetur.

Others, dignetur.

Vide not. 5 Quesn.

See Quesnel's note 5.

(d) ‹non minus Eutychianam› · printed under col 1097

Vocem haeresim a Quesnello omissam ex anterioribus editis, et nostris codd. revocavimus.

The word haeresim, omitted by Quesnel, we have restored from the earlier editions and our manuscripts.

(e) ‹ita et in mala› · printed under col 1097

Quesnellus ex Grimanico confessione, et in margine lectioni vulgatae, consensione, quam ex nostris codd. et ex Hincmaro restituimus, affixit notam male; cum tamen melior et verior sit; significat enim clericorum consiliis consensisse Anatolium, de quo Leo dixit paulo ante: Quod tentari sine tua voluntate non potuit.

Quesnel, from the Grimani manuscript, confessione, and in the margin he attached the mark male to the common reading consensione, which we have restored from our manuscripts and from Hincmar; though it is the better and truer reading; for it signifies that Anatolius consented to the counsels of the clergy, of which Leo said a little before: What could not have been attempted without your will.

(f) printed under this column (running on under col 1098); its call is in col 1098, set in n1098.