Leo the Great, Letters

(a) ‹anchor: "defensionem fidei" (Letter LXXV; call printed at the head of col 904)› · printed under col 903

Ratisp., iisdem.

The Ratisbon manuscript: these same.

(b) ‹anchor: "incitari. Data" (Letter LXXV; call printed at the head of col 904)› · printed under col 903

Idem codex, V idus.

The same manuscript: 5th day before the ides.

(c) ‹anchor: "EPISTOLA" (heading of Letter LXXVI)› · printed under col 903

Alias post epist. 71. Quae autem erat 76, nunc 96. Scripta 22 Nov. an. 450.

Formerly after letter 71. The one that was 76 is now 96. Written on 22 November, in the year 450.

(d) ‹anchor: before "MARCIANI IMPERATORIS" (title of Letter LXXVI)› · printed under col 903

Est in mss. collect. Chalcedon. 17 et 22, in quibus ad archiepiscopum legitur, sicut etiam in titulo Graeco; non ad episcopum, ut in editione Quesnelli.

It is in the manuscripts of the Chalcedonian collection, 17 and 22, in which to the archbishop is read, as also in the Greek title; not to the bishop, as in Quesnel's edition.

(e) ‹anchor: before "Decimo kalendas Decembris" (Latin synopsis of Letter LXXVI)› · printed under cols 903–904

In codicibus Latinis nulla synopsis huic epistolae praemittitur; at legitur in mss. Graecis, ex quibus editores Romani Graecum textum vulgarunt, et ex synopsi Graeca hanc Latinam reddidere. Solum pro Decembris, qui mensis in Graeco legitur, perperam correxerunt, Septembris, eo quod ex erroneo consulatu cujusdam legis Marciani, imperium ante diem 24 Augusti ab eo assumptum, et has litteras paulo post assumptionem ad imperium scriptas crediderint. Epistola quidem 74 data fuit statim post susceptum imperium, ad quod eum evectum fuisse die 24 Augusti ex Chronico Paschali Antonius Pagius ostendit. Haec autem epistola post legatorum adventum exarata fuit, quem in mensem Novembrem incidisse ex hisce litteris discimus.

In the Latin manuscripts no synopsis is placed before this letter; but it is read in the Greek manuscripts, from which the Roman editors published the Greek text, and from the Greek synopsis they rendered this Latin one. Only, for December, which month is read in the Greek, they wrongly corrected September, because, from the erroneous consulship of a certain law of Marcian, they believed that the empire was assumed by him before 24 August, and that this letter was written shortly after his assumption of the empire. Letter 74, indeed, was given immediately after he took up the empire, to which Antoine Pagi showed from the Paschal Chronicle that he was raised on 24 August. But this letter was composed after the arrival of the legates, which we learn from this very letter fell in the month of November.

(f) ‹anchor: "Ecclesiae gloriosissimae" (Latin version)› · printed under col 904

Ita nostri quinque codices. Vulgati, gloriosae. Cod. Divion. et Quesnellus in margine, reverendissimae.

So our five manuscripts. The printed editions: glorious. The Dijon manuscript, and Quesnel in the margin: most reverend.

(g) ‹anchor: "De studio et oratione" (Latin version)› · printed under col 904

Editi in margine ex Graeco, voto nostro.

The editions, in the margin, from the Greek: our prayer.

(h) ‹anchor: "servari. Denique" (Latin version)› · printed under col 904

Vulgati item in margine ex Graeco, etenim. Mox pro securitatem quidam codices habent sollicitudinem.

The printed editions, likewise in the margin, from the Greek: for indeed. Just after, for securitatem [security] some manuscripts have sollicitudinem [solicitude].

Decimo kalendas Decembris Constantinopoli, domino nostro Valentiniano imperatore nostro piissimo septimum et Avieno clarissimis consulibus, sacrae litterae missae sunt a domino nostro Marciano perpetuo imperatore ad sanctissimum episcopum Leonem, quibus significabat eos qui ab eodem viro reverendissimo missi fuerant hilariter fuisse susceptos: quare cum omni alacritate eo se conferre dignetur, et synodum celebrare; vel, si hoc ei grave videbitur, suis litteris significet ut, sacris litteris episcopis vocatis, in qua placuerit civitate, fidei convenientia decernantur. LEONI reverentissimo episcopo Ecclesiae gloriosissimae civitatis Romae, MARCIANUS. De studio et oratione nostra sanctitas tua non dubitat: quoniam veram Christianorum religionem et apostolicam fidem firmam volumus permanere, et ab omni populo pia mente servari. Denique securitatem nostrae potentiae ex recta religione et propitiatione Salvatoris nostri consistere non ambigimus. Quapropter reverendissimos viros quos ad nostram pietatem sanctitas tua direxit libenter et sicut decebat animo grato suscepimus. Superest ut si placuerit tuae beatitudini in has partes advenire et synodum celebrare, hoc facere religionis affectu dignetur: nostris utique desideriis vestra sanctitas satisfaciet, et sacrae religioni quae utilia sunt decernet. Si vero hoc onerosum est ut tu ad has partes advenias, hoc ipsum nobis propriis litteris tua sanctitas manifestet, quatenus in omnem Orientem et in ipsam Thraciam et Illyricum sacrae nostrae litterae dirigantur, ut ad quemdam definitum locum, ubi nobis placuerit, omnes sanctissimi episcopi debeant convenire, et quae Christianorum religioni atque catholicae fidei prosint, sicut sanctitas tua secundum

(e) continued from col 903, set in n903. Notes (f), (g), (h), printed under this column, answer calls in col 903 and are set in n903.

(1) ‹anchor: "βασιλέως" (Greek synopsis of Letter LXXVI)› · printed under col 904

Lege, τὸ ἕβδομον.

Read: τὸ ἕβδομον [for the seventh time].

(2) ‹anchor: "ἐπισκόπῳ" (address of Letter LXXVI)› · printed under col 904

In vulgatis non apparet vos ἐκκλησίας; nos addidimus ex ms. Ven. potissimum et ex Latino textu.

In the printed editions the word ἐκκλησίας [of the Church] does not appear; we have added it chiefly from the Venice manuscript and from the Latin text.

(3) ‹anchor: "λογισμῷ" (Letter LXXVI)› · printed under col 904

Ms. Ven., ἡδέως.

The Venice manuscript: ἡδέως [gladly].

(4) ‹anchor: "θεῖαι ἡμέτεραι" (Letter LXXVI)› · printed under col 904

Edit. Rom. in margine, ἀποσταλήσοιται. [F. leg. ἀποσταλήσωνται].

The Roman edition, in the margin: ἀποσταλήσοιται. [Perhaps read ἀποσταλήσωνται.]

Τῇ πρὸ δέκα καλανδῶν Δεκεμβρίων ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει, τοῦ δεσπότου ἡμῶν Οὐαλεντινιανοῦ τοῦ εὐσεβεστάτου ἡμῶν βασιλέως τὸ ὄγδοον, καὶ Ἀβιηνοῦ, τῶν λαμπροτάτων ὑπάτων, θεῖα γράμματα κατεπέμφθη παρὰ τοῦ δεσπότου ἡμῶν τοῦ αἰωνίου βασιλέως Μαρκιανοῦ πρὸς τὸν ἁγιώτατον ἐπίσκοπον Λέοντα, σημαίνοντα, ὅτι καὶ οἱ ἀποσταλέντες παρὰ τοῦ αὐτοῦ εὐλαβεστάτου ἀνδρὸς ἡδέως ἐδέχθησαν· ὥστε μετὰ πάσης προθυμίας ἐν τοῖς μέρεσι τούτοις παραγενέσθαι καταξιώσῃ, καὶ τὴν σύνοδον ἐπιτελέσαι· ἢ, εἰ τοῦτο ἐπαχθὲς αὐτῷ ὀφθείη, διὰ ἰδίων γραμμάτων δηλώσῃ· ὥστε θείοις γράμμασι, κληθέντας τοὺς ἐπισκόπους, ἐν ᾗ ἂν ἀρέσῃ πόλει τὰ ἁρμόζοντα τῇ πίστει ὁρισθῶσιν.

On the tenth day before the kalends of December, at Constantinople, our lord Valentinian, our most pious emperor, [being consul] for the eighth time, and Avienus, the most illustrious consuls, a sacred letter was sent by our lord the eternal emperor Marcian to the most holy bishop Leo, signifying that those who had been sent by the same most reverent man had been gladly received; so that he should deign to come with all readiness to these parts and to hold the synod; or, if this should seem burdensome to him, he should make it known by his own letter, so that, the bishops having been called by sacred letters, what befits the faith may be defined in whatever city he pleases.

(a) ‹anchor: "ecclesiasticas regulas" (Latin version of Letter LXXVI)› · printed under col 905

Ita nostri et Baluzii codices, concinente Graeco textu: qua lectione indicatur id declarandum in generali concilio quod religioni et fidei prosit, sicut Leo antea in sua praesertim ad Flavianum epistola definierat. Similem sententiam praefert etiam sequens epistola Pulcheriae; ubi de catholica confessione a concilii Patribus decernendum affirmat te auctore, quod quidem solemni receptione litterarum Leonis ad Flavianum in Chalcedonensi factum fuit.

So our manuscripts and Baluze's, the Greek text agreeing: by this reading it is indicated that what is profitable to religion and faith was to be declared in the general council, as Leo had previously defined, especially in his letter to Flavian. The following letter of Pulcheria also presents a similar view, where she affirms that the Fathers of the council are to decree concerning the catholic confession, with you as its author; which indeed was done at Chalcedon by the solemn reception of Leo's letter to Flavian.

(b) ‹anchor: "sua dispositione declarent" (Latin version of Letter LXXVI)› · printed under col 905

Tempus hujus epistolae, id est diem 22 Novembris an. 450, nobis conservavit titulus, quem ex Graecis codd. loco synopsis praefiximus.

The date of this letter, that is, 22 November of the year 450, has been preserved for us by the heading which we have placed before it, from the Greek manuscripts, in the place of a synopsis.

(c) ‹anchor: "EPISTOLA" (heading of Letter LXXVII)› · printed under col 905

Al. post epist. 58. Quae autem antea 77 erat, nunc 102. Sub idem tempus quo praecedens

Otherwise after letter 58. The one that was formerly 77 is now 102. About the same time as the preceding

(d) ‹anchor: "PULCHERIAE AUGUSTAE" (title of Letter LXXVII)› · printed under col 905

Exstat in iisdem codicibus in quibus praecedens invenitur, et in his archiepiscopum legitur, non episcopum, ut Vulgati cum Graeco praeferunt.

It is extant in the same manuscripts in which the preceding is found, and in these archbishop is read, not bishop, as the printed editions present it, with the Greek.

(e) ‹anchor: before "Missae sunt etiam" (Latin synopsis of Letter LXXVII)› · printed under col 905

Haec synopsis invenitur in mss. libris Latinae collectionis Chalcedonensis, qui integram et perfectam Rustici editionem continent, cujusmodi sunt tres Baluzii et noster Chigianus 483. Deest autem in Vat. 1323 et 4166, qui quaedam Rustici praeferunt, quaedam praetereunt. In antiquissimo Veron. 57 et Veneto S. Marci 79, haec synopsis aliis verbis expressa praemittitur: Incipit epistola Pulcheriae Augustae ad eumdem sanctissimum archiepiscopum Romae Leonem, quae significat reverentissimum Anatolium Constantinopolitanum, errore relicto, episcopum confirmatum subscriptione maxime epistolae ejus dogmaticae ad S. Flavianum directae, cujus Flaviani etiam corpus significat suae sedi perductum, et in Apostolorum basilicam depositum et alia quae tenor sacrorum apicum ejus demonstrat.

This synopsis is found in the manuscript books of the Latin Chalcedonian collection which contain the entire and complete edition of Rusticus, such as are Baluze's three and our Chigi 483. It is missing, however, in Vatican 1323 and 4166, which present some things of Rusticus and pass over others. In the very ancient Verona 57 and in the Venice manuscript of St Mark 79 this synopsis is placed before [the letter], expressed in other words: Here begins the letter of Pulcheria Augusta to the same most holy archbishop of Rome, Leo, which signifies that the most reverend Anatolius of Constantinople, having left error, was confirmed as bishop, chiefly by the subscription of his dogmatic letter directed to St Flavian; it signifies also that the body of this Flavian was brought to his own see and laid in the basilica of the Apostles, and the other things which the tenor of her sacred writing shows.

(f) ‹anchor: "Missae sunt etiam" (Latin synopsis)› · printed under col 906 (mark faint, reads like "(j)")

Ita cod. Chigianus collect. Chalced. ex integra editione Rustici, uti etiam in Graeco. Editi, sacrae litterae.

So the Chigi manuscript of the Chalcedonian collection, from the entire edition of Rusticus, as also in the Greek. The editions: a sacred letter.

(g) ‹anchor: "et" before "sustineri" (Latin synopsis)› · printed under col 906

Ita exemplaria ejusdem Rustici. Vulgati, sustinere.

So the copies of the same Rusticus. The printed editions: sustinere.

(h) ‹anchor: "Flaviano," before "et ad exsilium" (Latin synopsis)› · printed under col 906

Conjunctionem et hoc loco necessariam, quae deest in mss. Baluzii, reperimus in codice Chigiano, et fuit etiam in illo ms. ex quo ab editoribus Conciliorum vulgata fuit.

The conjunction and, necessary in this place, which is missing in Baluze's manuscripts, we have found in the Chigi manuscript; and it was also in that manuscript from which [the letter] was published by the editors of the Councils.

(i) ‹anchor: "Litteras tuae beatitudinis" (Latin version)› · printed under col 906

Vulgati, cum omni decenti omnem episcopum veneratione, nullo nostro vel Baluzii codice suffragante. Cod. Divion. ipsius Baluzii, cum decenti omni episcopali veneratione. Praetulimus lectionem quinque nostrorum mss. et aliorum duorum Baluzii. Leonis litterae, quae hic a Pulcheria memorantur, sunt epistola 70.

The printed editions: with all veneration befitting every bishop, with no manuscript of ours or of Baluze supporting it. The Dijon manuscript of Baluze himself: with all befitting episcopal veneration. We have preferred the reading of five of our manuscripts and of two others of Baluze. Leo's letter, which is mentioned here by Pulcheria, is letter 70.

(j) ‹anchor: "et epistolae namque" (Latin version; no call is visible in the text of col 905)› · printed under col 906

Cum propositi nostri sit proferre veterem ex Graeco versionem, quaecumque fuerit; retinuimus et epistolae, licet ex Graeco reddendum fuisset, uti etiam contextus exigit, etenim epistolae: et mox adjecimus ex mss. particulam namque, quam ut incongruam editores omiserunt.

Since it is our purpose to present the old version from the Greek, whatever it may have been, we have kept et epistolae, although, from the Greek, it should have been rendered, as the context also requires, etenim epistolae [for to the letter]; and just after we have added from the manuscripts the particle namque, which the editors omitted as incongruous.

ecclesiasticas regulas definivit, sua dispositione declarent. Missae sunt etiam divinae syllabae a divae memoriae Pulcheria ad eumdem virum sanctissimum, nuntiantes Deo amicissimum archiepiscopum Constantinopolitanum Anatolium, omni errore seposito, epistolae nuper missae ad sanctae memoriae Flavianum absque ulla mora subscripsisse, et sustineri jam ut quaedam synodus fieret in partibus Orientis; corpus vero ejusdem sanctae memoriae Flaviani Constantinopolim fuisse perductum, ut in basilica apostolorum sepeliretur. Episcopi etiam, qui unanimes erant sanctae memoriae Flaviano, et ad exsilium fuerant destinati, et hos revocandos fore, ut ad recipiendas Ecclesias suas synodi sententiam sustinerent. LEONI reverendissimo episcopo Ecclesiae gloriosae civitatis Romae, PULCHERIA venerabilissima Augusta. Litteras tuae beatitudinis cum decenti omni episcopo veneratione suscepimus: per quas tuam fidem puram et talem cognovimus, qualis debet cum sanctitate sacro praeberi templo. Ego vero similiter ac meus dominus tranquillissimus imperator, meus conjux, in eadem semper et mansimus et manemus, omnem pravitatem atque pollutionem et maleficium declinantes. Sanctissimus igitur gloriosae Constantinopolis episcopus Anatolius in eadem fide permansit atque religione, et tuarum litterarum apostolicam confessionem complectitur, illo errore sublato qui ab aliquibus nunc ortus est, sicut ex ejus quoque litteris clarius tua sanctitas agnoscere poterit; et epistolae namque similiter catholicae fidei, quam ad sanctae memoriae Flavianum episcopum tua beatitudo direxit,

Notes (f), (g), (h), (i), (j), printed under this column, answer calls in col 905 and are set in n905.

(1) ‹anchor: "Θεῖαι συλλαβαὶ" (Greek synopsis of Letter LXXVII)› · printed under col 906

In marg. edit. Rom., ἀπεστάλησαι (leg., ἀπεστάλησαν) παρά.

In the margin of the Roman edition: ἀπεστάλησαι (read ἀπεστάλησαν [were sent]) παρά.

(2) ‹anchor: "τὸν θεοφιλέστατον" (Greek synopsis)› · printed under col 906

Ms. Ven., ἀρχιεπίσκοπον τῆς Κωνσταντινουπόλεως.

The Venice manuscript: ἀρχιεπίσκοπον τῆς Κωνσταντινουπόλεως [archbishop of Constantinople].

(3) ‹anchor: "μελλησμοῦ" (Greek synopsis)› · printed under col 906

Ita sanavimus hunc locum, sequentes ductum cod. Ven., qui habet, ὑπογεγράφηκεν, addendo scilicet unam dipthongum, et legendo ὑπογεγραφηκέναι, uti per conjecturam notarunt in margine etiam edit. Rom. Male in vulg., ὑπογεγραφήκαμεν.

We have healed this passage thus, following the trace of the Venice manuscript, which has ὑπογεγράφηκεν [he has subscribed], namely by adding one diphthong and reading ὑπογεγραφηκέναι [to have subscribed], as the editors of the Roman edition also noted by conjecture in the margin. Wrongly in the printed editions: ὑπογεγραφήκαμεν [we have subscribed].

(4) ‹anchor: "Καὶ" before "τὸ λείψανον" (Greek synopsis)› · printed under col 906

In marg. edit. Rom., ἴς. ὅτι τὸ.

In the margin of the Roman edition: ἴς. [perhaps] ὅτι τὸ [that the].

(5) ‹anchor: "ἀποσταλέντες," (Greek synopsis)› · printed under col 906

Ms. Ven., οὕς.

The Venice manuscript: οὕς [whom].

(6) ‹anchor: "διὰ παντὸς καὶ" (Letter LXXVII)› · printed under col 906

In ms. Ven., διέμεινεν.

In the Venice manuscript: διέμεινεν [has remained].

Θεῖαι συλλαβαὶ ἀπεστάλησαν γὰρ παρὰ τῆς θείας μνήμης Πουλχερίας πρὸς τὸν αὐτὸν ἁγιώτατον ἄνδρα, μηνύουσαι τὸν θεοφιλέστατον ἀρχιεπίσκοπον Κωνσταντινουπόλεως Ἀνατόλιον, χωρισθείσης πλάνης, ἔναγχος τῇ πεμφθείσῃ ἐπιστολῇ πρὸς τὸν τῆς ἁγίας μνήμης Φλαυιανὸν, ἄνευ τινὸς μελλησμοῦ ὑπογεγραφηκέναι· καί τινα ἤδη ἐν τοῖς τῆς Ἀνατολῆς μέρεσι σύνοδον εἶναι ἐπιτελεστέαν. Καὶ τὸ λείψανον δὲ τοῦ αὐτοῦ τῆς ἁγίας μνήμης Φλαυιανοῦ ἐν τῇ Κωνσταντινουπόλει κατηνέχθη, ἐν τῇ τῶν ἀποστόλων βασιλικῇ κατατεθησόμενον· καὶ οἱ ἐπίσκοποι δὲ, οἱ ὁμονοήσαντες τῷ τῆς θείας μνήμης Φλαυιανῷ εἰς ἐξορίαν ἦσαν ἀποσταλέντες, τούτους ἀνακλητέους πρὸς ἀναληπτέας τὰς ἰδίας ἐκκλησίας, συνόδου ἀναμενοῦντας τὴν ἀπόφασιν.

A sacred letter was also sent by Pulcheria of divine memory to the same most holy man, announcing that the most God-beloved archbishop of Constantinople, Anatolius, error having been set aside, had lately subscribed without any delay the letter sent to Flavian of holy memory; and that a synod was now to be held in the parts of the East. And the remains of the same Flavian of holy memory were brought to Constantinople, to be laid in the basilica of the apostles; and the bishops too who had agreed with Flavian of divine memory had been sent into exile: these were to be recalled to take back their own churches, awaiting the decision of the synod.

(a) ‹anchor: "quocumque modo" (Latin version of Letter LXXVII)› · printed under col 907

Ita codd. omnes collect. Chalcedon. Cod. Venetus collect. 22, cum editis prospexerit.

So all the manuscripts of the Chalcedonian collection. The Venice manuscript of collection 22, with the editions: prospexerit [shall have foreseen].

(b) ‹anchor: "et de catholica" (Latin version)› · printed under col 907

Ms. Chig., religione vel confessione.

The Chigi manuscript: religion or confession.

(c) ‹anchor: "principis mei conjugis" (Latin version)› · printed under col 907

Sic vetera exemplaria, quemadmodum epist. 62, in Romana urbe reversione, Romae pervenisse; et similia, quae interpretem Graeco textui adhaerentem, at a Latina ratione scribendi alienum manifestant. Editi, in gloriosam civitatem Constantinopolim.

So the old copies, just as in letter 62, in Romana urbe reversione, Romae pervenisse; and similar things, which show a translator clinging to the Greek text but a stranger to the Latin manner of writing. The editions: in gloriosam civitatem Constantinopolim [to the glorious city of Constantinople].

(d) ‹anchor: "reverti" (Latin version)› · printed under col 907

Vulgati inserunt debere, non vero codices.

The printed editions insert debere [ought], but not the manuscripts.

(e) ‹anchor: "omnium episcoporum" (Latin version)› · printed under col 907

Vulgati in margine addunt una.

The printed editions add una [together] in the margin.

(f) ‹anchor: "recipere decernantur" (end of the Latin version of Letter LXXVII)› · printed under cols 907–908

Cum Leo huic et praecedenti epistolae eodem die responderit epistolis 78 et 79, eas simul missas et a pontifice simul acceptas fuisse indicium est; unde in utrisque similia leguntur quoad concilium cogendum ex episcopis Orientis, Thraciae et Illyrici, etc. Hinc sicut praecedens epistola Marciani scripta fuit die 22 Novembris an. 450, ita etiam haec Pulcheriae. Unum obstare videtur Marciani silentium de facto Anatolii, quod Pulcheriae litteris indicatur. Si enim hoc praecessisset epistolam imperatoris, hic honorificam legatorum susceptionem memorans, non videtur fuisse omissurum tam prosperum factum, quod legatio potissimum spectabat, et pontifex maxime expetebat. Sed cum scopus epistolae Marciani fuerit concilii indicendi consilium aperire, sola legatorum susceptione commemorata, praeterire potuit caetera quae ex aliis aliorum litteris ac ex gestis simul transmissis Leonem cogniturum sciebat. Si tamen hac de causa posterior credatur Pulcheriae epistola, non tamen multo posterior dicenda erit. Susceptis enim legatis ante diem 22 Novembris, hos in rem suam statim sedulam operam adhibuisse, facileque iisdem fuisse, Pulcheria et Marciano faventibus, rem transigere dubitandum non est: ita ut paucorum dierum intervallo rebus omnibus confectis et Romam statim transmissis cum Pulcheriae litteris, S. pontifex Marciano simul et Pulcheriae eadem die respondere potuerit. Ita in hac quoque sententia epistola Augustae non multo post diem 22 Novembris ante finem anni 450 scripta dicenda erit.

Since Leo answered this letter and the preceding one on the same day, in letters 78 and 79, it is an indication that they were sent together and received together by the pontiff; hence in both similar things are read about the council to be gathered from the bishops of the East, Thrace and Illyricum, etc. Hence, as the preceding letter of Marcian was written on 22 November of the year 450, so also was this one of Pulcheria. One thing seems to stand in the way: Marcian's silence about the act of Anatolius, which is indicated in Pulcheria's letter. For if this had preceded the emperor's letter, he, in recalling the honourable reception of the legates, would not seem likely to have omitted so prosperous an event, which the legation chiefly had in view and the pontiff most sought. But since the aim of Marcian's letter was to disclose the plan of summoning a council, having mentioned only the reception of the legates, he could pass over the other things, which he knew Leo would learn from the letters of others and from the acts sent at the same time. If, however, Pulcheria's letter is believed for this reason to be later, it will still not have to be called much later. For there is no doubt that the legates, received before 22 November, at once applied diligent effort to their business, and that it was easy for them, with Pulcheria and Marcian favouring, to settle the matter: so that, everything having been completed within an interval of a few days and at once sent to Rome with Pulcheria's letter, the holy pontiff could reply to Marcian and to Pulcheria together on the same day. So on this view too the Augusta's letter will have to be said to have been written not long after 22 November, before the end of the year 450.

(g) ‹anchor: "EPISTOLA" (heading of Letter LXXVIII)› · printed under col 908

Al. 58. Quae autem antea 78 erat; nunc 104. Scripta 13 Aprilis an. 451.

Otherwise 58. The one that was formerly 78 is now 104. Written on 13 April, in the year 451.

(h) ‹anchor: before "AD MARCIANUM AUGUSTUM" (title of Letter LXXVIII)› · printed under col 908

Edita fuit a Merlino ex ms. collect. 12. Quesnellus contulit cum Grimanico collect. 18; eamdem relegimus cum cod. Ratisp. collect. 19 et duobus collect. 12.

It was edited by Merlin from a manuscript of collection 12. Quesnel collated it with the Grimani manuscript of collection 18; we have read it again with the Ratisbon manuscript of collection 19 and two of collection 12.

(i) ‹anchor: before "Litteras pietatis vestrae" (Letter LXXVIII)› · printed under col 908

Indicari videtur epistola 76. Nam epistolae 73 ejusdem imperatoris Leonem antea respondisse cum praecipua gratulatione de assumptione ejusdem indubium credimus. Epistolam nimirum 73 ab imperatore fuisse transmissam per Maximinum comitem, qui notitiam assumptionis ejus in Urbem attulit, valde probabile est; et sicut per hunc Leo ad Faustum et Martinum Constantinopolitanos misit epist. 75 datam VI idus Novembris an. 450, in qua primum indicium electionis ejus elucet, uti observavimus annot. 3 (Col. 902, n. j) ita per eumdem etiam gratulatorias litteras ad ipsum imperatorem rescripsisse haud ambigendum videtur.

Letter 76 seems to be indicated. For we believe it beyond doubt that Leo had earlier answered letter 73 of the same emperor with special congratulation on his accession. It is very probable, namely, that letter 73 was sent by the emperor through the count Maximinus, who brought news of his accession to the City; and as Leo sent through him to Faustus and Martin of Constantinople letter 75, dated the 6th day before the ides of November, in the year 450, in which the first indication of his election shines out, as we observed in note 3 (col. 902, note j), so it seems not to be doubted that through the same man he also wrote back a letter of congratulation to the emperor himself.

sine aliqua dilatione subscripsit. Et propterea tua reverentia quocumque modo perspexerit, significare dignetur; ut omnes etiam totius Orientis episcopi, Thraciae atque Illyrici, sicut etiam nostro domino piissimo imperatori meo conjugi placuit, in unam civitatem velociter ab Orientalibus partibus valeant convenire; et illic facto concilio, et de catholica confessione, et de his episcopis qui ante hoc segregati sunt, sicut fides et Christiana pietas exigit, te auctore decernant. Super haec autem sciat tua sanctitas, quoniam praecepto nostri domini et tranquillissimi principis mei conjugis in gloriosa civitate Constantinopoli sanctae memoriae episcopi Flaviani corpus allatum est, et in basilica Apostolorum, in qua consueverunt praecessores episcopi sepeliri, competenter est positum. Et hos similiter episcopos, qui propter eamdem causam, quoniam cum sanctissimo Flaviano ad concordiam fidei catholicae concurrerant, exsilio deportati sunt, reverti robore pragmatici sui praecepit; quatenus per approbationem synodi, atque sententiam omnium episcoporum convenientium, episcopatum et ecclesias proprias recipere decernantur.