PL 54 · cols. 921–925

Leo the Great, Letters

Letters LXXXIV–LXXXVI

inter caetera apud pietatem vestram poterunt allegare quos misi. Data V idus Junii, Adelfio viro clarissimo consule.

[…] those whom I have sent will be able, among other things, to set forth before your piety. Given on the fifth day before the Ides of June, Adelfius, a man of clarissimus rank, being consul.

EPISTOLA LXXXIV.

LETTER LXXXIV.

AD PULCHERIAM AUGUSTAM.

TO PULCHERIA AUGUSTA.

LEO episcopus PULCHERIAE Augustae.

LEO, bishop, TO PULCHERIA Augusta.

CAP. I. — Religiosam pietatis vestrae sollicitudinem, qua universo mundo, Deo inspirante, consolitis, crebrioribus alloquiis incitare praesumo, ut operum vestrorum profectum necessaria perfectio subsequatur; ac sicut de statu Constantinopolitanae Ecclesiae gratulamur, cujus et sacerdos et populus catholicae puritatis fidem jam tenere cognoscitur, ita etiam aliorum concors nobiscum sit de Verbi incarnatione confessio. Unde quod facturum me aliis litteris indicaveram, Lucentium episcopum, et Basilium presbyterum fratres meos dirigere properavi, qui dispositiones meas, fratris mei Anatolii devotione sociata, secundum eas quas acceperunt regulas exsequantur, gloriosissima Augusta. Sicut enim praedicti episcopi scriptis et clericorum ejus suggestione patefactum est, multa sunt quae indulgentius sunt curanda, multa quae justius coercenda: ut in causa tantae perturbationis, nec districtio sit nimis aspera, nec remissio parum cauta; cum aliud satisfacientibus, aliud pertinacibus debeatur.

CHAP. I. — The religious solicitude of your piety, with which, God inspiring you, you are wont to console the whole world, I venture to urge on with more frequent addresses, so that the necessary completion may follow upon the progress of your works; and that, just as we rejoice over the state of the Church of Constantinople, whose bishop and people alike are known now to hold the faith of catholic purity, so also the confession of others concerning the incarnation of the Word may be in concord with us. Hence, as I had indicated in another letter that I would do, I have made haste to send my brothers Lucentius the bishop and Basil the presbyter, who, joined by the devotion of my brother Anatolius, are to carry out my arrangements according to the rules which they have received, most glorious Augusta. For, as has been made known by the letter of the aforesaid bishop and the report of his clerics, there are many things that must be treated more indulgently, and many that must more justly be restrained: so that in a case of such great disturbance strictness may not be too harsh nor leniency too incautious; since one thing is due to those who make satisfaction, another to the obstinate.

CAP. II. — Offertur ergo pietati vestrae digna materia, quae placitam Domino curam sancti cordis exerceat, et praecedentium meritorum coronas etiam de praesentis erroris abolitione multiplicet. Sicut enim Nestoriana impietas, ita et Eutychiana blasphemia ab omnium est catholicorum eliminanda consortio. Quia tam impium est, consempiternam et consubstantialem Patri Filii Deitatem, etiam ex utero Virginis matris partu editam negare corporeo, quam unam in Dei Filio post incarnationis sacramentum affirmare naturam: ut scilicet aut humanitas ejus refutetur aut Deitas; cum unitione utriusque

CHAP. II. — There is offered to your piety, therefore, worthy matter, in which to exercise the care of a holy heart that is pleasing to the Lord, and to multiply the crowns of former merits by the abolition of the present error as well. For as the Nestorian impiety, so also the Eutychian blasphemy is to be banished from the fellowship of all catholics. For it is as impious to deny that the Godhead of the Son, co-eternal and consubstantial with the Father, was also brought forth by bodily birth from the womb of the Virgin mother, as to affirm that there is one nature in the Son of God after the mystery of the incarnation: so that, forsooth, either His humanity or His Godhead is rejected; whereas by the union of both […]

Editors' notes and page, col. 921

Footnotes

(a) ‹anchor: "Data"› · printed under col 921

Retinuimus diem editorum ante Quesn., quippe qui non solum legitur in exemplo Sichardi, et in mss. collect. 12 et 24, verum etiam in praestantissimo Ratisp. et in Vindebon. Hisp. Quesnellus ex Grim. et noster Vat. collect. 11, VII idus. Vat. Hisp. et Isid., VI idus. Mss. duo collect. 21, idus, ubi numeralis nota collectoris vel librarii errore omissa fuit.

We have kept the day of the editions before Quesnel, since it is read not only in Sichard's exemplar and in the manuscripts of collections 12 and 24, but also in the excellent Ratisbon and in the Vienna Hispana. Quesnel, from the Grimani, and our Vatican [manuscript] of collection 11: the seventh [day before the] Ides. The Vatican Hispana and Isidorian: the sixth [day before the] Ides. Two manuscripts of collection 21: the Ides, where the numeral was omitted by the error of the compiler or the copyist.

(b) ‹anchor: "EPISTOLA"› · printed under col 921

Alias 64. Quae autem antea 84 erat, nunc 111. Scripta 9 Junii an. 451.

Elsewhere 64. That which was formerly 84 is now 111. Written 9 June in the year 451.

Est in mss. collect. 12, 18 et 19.

It is in the manuscripts of collections 12, 18 and 19.

(d) ‹anchor: "operum"› · printed under col 921

Cod. Ratisp., nostrorum.

The Ratisbon manuscript: nostrorum [of our].

(e) ‹anchor: "dirigere"› · printed under col 921

Vulgati ante Quesn. male, praeparavi.

The printed editions before Quesnel, wrongly: praeparavi [I prepared].

(f) ‹anchor: "justius"› · printed under col 921

Cod. Grim., inquirenda.

The Grimani manuscript: inquirenda [to be inquired into].

(g) ‹anchor: "placitam"› · printed under col 921

Ratisp., Deo.

The Ratisbon: Deo [to God].

(h) ‹anchor: "blasphemia"› · printed under col 921

Idem Ratisp., ab omni catholicorum est abominanda consortio.

The same Ratisbon: is to be abhorred by every fellowship of catholics.

(i) ‹anchor: "cum"› · printed under col 921

Idem codex, unione.

The same manuscript: unione [by the union].

Editors' prose

SYNOPSIS. — I. Legatos mittit qui cum lapsis summa prudentia et moderatione agant. — II. Extra unitatem fieri qui naturam nostram in Christo negat. — III. Rogat ut Eutyches ad longinquiora transferatur, ejusque monasterio catholicus praeficiatur.

SYNOPSIS. — I. He sends legates to deal with the lapsed with the greatest prudence and moderation. — II. That he who denies our nature in Christ places himself outside the unity. — III. He asks that Eutyches be moved to more distant parts and that a catholic be set over his monastery.

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running head: 921 EPISTOLA LXXXIV. (continuing across the page: printed "…OLA LXXXV. 922")
marginal letters: A ‹inter caetera apud›; B ‹subsequatur; ac sicut›; C ‹beatur.› (beside the end of chap. I); D ‹qui non solum legitur› (in the footnotes)
old-edition numerals: 1048 before ‹EPISTOLA (b) LXXXIV›; 1049 after ‹teria,›
signature: none
other: Letter LXXXIII ends and Letter LXXXIV (to Pulcheria) begins in this column; "utrius-que" is split across the break into col 922 and set whole at the end of this column.

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essentiae, nec altera sit in alteram versa, nec assumpta in assumente finita; sed et Verbi incommutabilitas, et carnis atque animae veritas maneant inseparabiliter in unitate personae. Quod qui testificante lege, credentibus patriarchis, annuntiantibus prophetis, praedicante Evangelio, docentibus apostolis, et toto mundo confitente non credunt, extra sacramentum corporis Christi, extra unitatem sunt nominis Christiani.

[…] essences neither has the one been changed into the other, nor the assumed [nature] brought to an end in the one assuming it; but both the unchangeableness of the Word and the reality of the flesh and of the soul remain inseparably in the unity of the person. Those who do not believe this, though the law bears witness, the patriarchs believe, the prophets announce, the Gospel preaches, the apostles teach, and the whole world confesses, are outside the mystery of the body of Christ, outside the unity of the Christian name.

CAP. III. — Quorum sicut ruinam dolemus, ita perfidiam detestamur. Ut autem circa talium personas sincerum servetur ubique judicium, et aliud correctis, aliud pertinacibus rependatur, vestra pietas nostros, qui ab apostolica sede sunt missi, fovere dignetur; eorumque omnes quas injunximus adjuvet actiones; quo citius ac facilius, auxiliante Domino, quae ad vestram gloriam et ad totius Ecclesiae pacem proficiant exsequantur. De Eutyche autem totius scandali et pravitatis auctore, hoc clementia vestra praecipiat, ut ab eo loco qui Constantinopolitanae urbi nimis vicinus est, longius transferatur: ne frequentioribus solatiis eorum quos ad impietatem suam traxit utatur. Monasterio quoque ipsius, cui perniciose indigneque praesedit, catholicum abbatem jubete praeponi, qui illam servorum Dei congregationem et a pravo dogmate liberare, et institutis veritatis possit imbuere. Data V idus Junii, Adelfio viro clarissimo consule.

CHAP. III. — As we grieve over the ruin of these men, so we detest their perfidy. But so that a sincere judgement may everywhere be kept regarding the persons of such men, and one thing be rendered to the corrected, another to the obstinate, may your piety deign to cherish our [envoys], who have been sent from the apostolic see, and aid all the actions which we have enjoined on them; so that the more quickly and easily, with the Lord's help, they may carry out the things that serve your glory and the peace of the whole Church. Concerning Eutyches, moreover, the author of the whole scandal and depravity, let your clemency order this: that he be moved further away from that place which is too near to the city of Constantinople, lest he enjoy the too frequent consolations of those whom he has drawn into his impiety. Order also that a catholic abbot be set over his monastery, over which he presided ruinously and unworthily, one who can both free that congregation of the servants of God from the depraved doctrine and imbue it with the teachings of the truth. Given on the fifth day before the Ides of June, Adelfius, a man of clarissimus rank, being consul.

EPISTOLA LXXXV.

LETTER LXXXV.

AD ANATOLIUM EPISCOPUM CONSTANTINOPOLITANUM.

TO ANATOLIUS, BISHOP OF CONSTANTINOPLE.

LEO episcopus ANATOLIO episcopo.

LEO, bishop, TO ANATOLIUS, bishop.

CAP. I. — Licet sperem dilectionem tuam ad omne opus bonum esse devotam, ut tamen efficacior tua fieri possit industria, necessarium et congruum fuit fratres meos Lucentium episcopum, et Basilium presbyterum, ut promisimus, destinare; quibus tua dilectio societur, ut nihil in his quae ad universalis Ecclesiae statum pertinent, aut dubie agatur aut

CHAP. I. — Although I hope that your love is devoted to every good work, yet so that your diligence may become more effective, it was necessary and fitting to dispatch, as we promised, my brothers Lucentius the bishop and Basil the presbyter; let your love join itself to them, so that nothing in the matters that pertain to the state of the universal Church may be done either doubtfully or […]

Editors' notes and page, col. 922

Footnotes

(j) ‹anchor: "annuntiantibus"› · printed under col 922

Vulgati, annuentibus. Melior trium nostrorum codicum lectio.

The printed editions: annuentibus [assenting]. The reading of three of our manuscripts is better.

(k) ‹anchor: "Data"› · printed under col 922

Quesnellus ex Grimanico, VII idus. Caeteri editi cum codd. collect. 12, idibus. Ratisponensem sequimur, qui in quatuor epistolis per eosdem legatos transmissis eumdem diem more Leonis constanter praefert.

Quesnel, from the Grimani: the seventh [day before the] Ides. The other editions, with the manuscripts of collection 12: on the Ides. We follow the Ratisbon, which in the four letters sent by the same legates consistently shows the same day, after Leo's custom.

(l) ‹anchor: "EPISTOLA"› · printed under col 922

Alias 65. Quae autem antea 85 erat, nunc 112. Scripta 19 Junii an. 451.

Elsewhere 65. That which was formerly 85 is now 112. Written 19 June in the year 451.

(m) ‹anchor: heading "AD ANATOLIUM"› · printed under col 922

Exstat haec epistola in iisdem mss. in quibus superior 83.

This letter survives in the same manuscripts as Letter 83 above.

(n) ‹anchor: "SYNOPSIS"› · printed under col 922

In Hispanica hic titulus legitur: De his qui in haereticorum erroribus metu, non voluntate implicantur, ut per satisfactionem in Ecclesia suscipiantur, et ut haereticorum nomina ad altare non recitentur.

In the Hispana this title is read: On those who are entangled in the errors of heretics through fear, not by will, that they be received into the Church through satisfaction; and that the names of heretics be not recited at the altar.

(o) ‹anchor: "necessarium"› · printed under col 922

Apud Ratramnum lib. IV contra Graecos tom. I Spicil. Acher. pag. 109, et commodum fuit.

In Ratramnus, Against the Greeks, book IV (d'Achery's Spicilegium, vol. I, p. 109): and [it] was advantageous.

Editors' prose

SYNOPSIS. — I. Ut qui haereticorum erroribus metu, non voluntate implicati sunt, per satisfactionem et non dubiam professionem suscipiantur. — II. Principes haereticorum sibi reservat discutiendos; eorum nomina ad altare interim recitari vetat. — III. De commonitorio ei respondet; ad sollicitudinem hortatur; cuncta sibi referri postulat.

SYNOPSIS. — I. That those who have been entangled in the errors of heretics through fear, not by will, be received through satisfaction and an unambiguous profession. — II. He reserves the leaders of the heretics to himself for examination; he forbids their names to be recited at the altar in the meantime. — III. He replies to him about the memorandum; he urges him to solicitude; he asks that everything be reported to him.

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running head: EPISTOLA LXXXV. 922 (printed so; the page's left column is headed EPISTOLA LXXXIV.)
marginal letters: A ‹que essentiae, nec altera›; B ‹actiones; quo citius›; C ‹(n) SYNOPSIS›; D ‹codicum lectio› (in the footnotes)
old-edition numerals: 1050 after ‹possit›
signature: none
other: Letter LXXXIV ends and Letter LXXXV begins in this column; the column ends on a whole word ("aut"), no hyphen.

PL 54:923

segniter; cum, residentibus vobis, quibus exsecutionem nostrae dispositionis injunximus, ea possint agi cuncta moderatione, ut nec benevolentiae partes nec justitiae negligantur, sed absque personarum acceptatione divinum in omnibus judicium cogitetur. Quod ut recta observnatia valeat custodiri, catholicae primitus fidei servetur integritas; et quia per omnia angusta et ardua via est, quae ducit ad vitam (Matth. VII, 14); neque in sinistram neque ad dexteram ab ejus tramite devietur.

[…] or sluggishly; since, with you sitting [in council], you on whom we have enjoined the execution of our arrangement, all these things can be conducted with such moderation that neither the claims of kindness nor those of justice are neglected, but the judgement of God is kept in mind in all things without respect of persons. And that this may be kept with right observance, let the integrity of the catholic faith first of all be preserved; and since in all things narrow and steep is the way which leads to life (Matt. 7:14), let there be no turning aside from its path either to the left or to the right.

Et quia evangelica et apostolica fides omnes expugnat errores, et ab uno latere Nestorium dejicit, ab alio Eutychen et participes ejus elidit, hanc regulam mementote servandam, ut quicumque in illa synodo, quae nomen synodi nec habere poterit nec meretur, et in qua malevolentiam suam Dioscorus, imperitiam autem Juvenalis ostendit, dolent, ut dilectionis tuae relatione comperimus, se metu victos et terrore superatos ad consensum scelestissimi judicii potuisse compelli, et communionem catholicam obtinere desiderant, satisfactioni eorum pax fraterna praestetur; ita ut non dubiis professionibus Eutychen cum suo dogmate, cumque consortibus suis anathematis exsecratione condemnent.

And since the evangelical and apostolic faith overcomes all errors, and on one side casts down Nestorius, on the other crushes Eutyches and his partners, remember that this rule is to be kept: whoever grieve, as we have learned from the report of your Love, that in that synod, which will neither be able to have the name of a synod nor deserves it, and in which Dioscorus displayed his malevolence and Juvenal his ignorance, they could be driven, overcome by fear and overpowered by terror, to consent to a most wicked judgement, and who desire to obtain catholic communion, to their satisfaction let fraternal peace be granted; on condition that, in no doubtful professions, they condemn Eutyches with his dogma and with his associates by the execration of anathema.

CAP. II. — De his autem qui in hac causa gravius peccavere, et ob hoc superiorem sibi locum in eadem infelici synodo vindicarunt, ut humiliorum fratrum simplicitatem arrogantiae suae praejudiciis aggravarent, si forte resipiscunt, et a facti sui defensione cessantes, in condemnationem proprii convertuntur erroris; horum si satisfactio talis accedit quae non refutanda videatur, maturioribus apostolicae sedis consiliis reservetur, ut examinatis omnibus atque perpensis, de ipsis eorum actionibus quid constitui

Chap. II. — But concerning those who sinned more gravely in this cause, and for this reason claimed for themselves a higher place in that same unhappy synod, so as to weigh down the simplicity of humbler brethren with the prejudgements of their arrogance: if perchance they come to their senses and, ceasing from the defence of their deed, turn to the condemnation of their own error, and if such satisfaction comes from them as does not seem fit to be refused, let it be reserved for the riper counsels of the apostolic see, so that, when all things have been examined and weighed, what ought to be decided concerning their actions themselves […]

Editors' notes and page, col. 923

Footnotes

(a) ‹segniter; cum,› · printed under col 923

Ita cum anterioribus vulgatis codex Ratisp. utrique Hisp. Vat. Isid. Ratramnus, Sichardus aliique nostri veteres libri, exceptis duobus collect. 21, qui omittunt vobis. Quesnellus, residentibus his, ex cod. Grimanico. Laudat etiam Trecopith. ac duos Thuaneos; ex quibus duo sunt collectionis 5. At in hac collectione haec epistola non invenitur; et si quidem exstat in his duobus codicibus, additamentum profecto est quod ad hanc collectionem non pertinet: unde in Thuanei ipsius tabula ab eodem Quesnello edita, quae omnia ejus collectionis documenta recenset, nequaquam apparet. Notat porro idem Quesnellus in marginali postilla, improbans nostram lectionem, residentibus vobis, his verbis: « Quasi Leo dispositionis suae executionem episcopo Constantinopolitano injunxisset Romanus. » Sed Anatolium hac in re delegatum, seu legatis specialiter adjunctum ostendunt verba paulo ante praemissa quibus tua dilectio societur; et in ep. 83. c. 2: Injunctum est ab apostolica sede directis, ut in consortium suae deliberationis adscito Constantinopolitanae urbis antistite, etc. Exsecutionem autem pontificiae dispositionis eidem injunctam ostendunt sequentia capitis tertii: Annitere itaque, ut..... fideliter et efficaciter... exsequaris. Paulo post apud Ratramnum, et in tribus codd., ea possint agi cuncta cum moderatione.

So [read], with the earlier printed editions, the Ratisbon codex, both Hispana [codices], Vat. Isid., Ratramnus, Sichard and our other old books, except two of collection 21, which omit vobis. Quesnel [reads] residentibus his, from the Grimani codex. He also cites the Trecopith. [codex] and two Thuanei, of which two are of collection 5. But this letter is not found in that collection; and if it does exist in those two codices, it is certainly an addition which does not belong to that collection: hence it nowhere appears in the table of the Thuaneus itself published by the same Quesnel, which lists all the documents of that collection. The same Quesnel further notes in a marginal gloss, disapproving our reading residentibus vobis, in these words: « As if Leo, the Roman, had enjoined the execution of his arrangement on the bishop of Constantinople. » But that Anatolius was delegated in this matter, or specially joined to the legates, is shown by the words set down a little before, quibus tua dilectio societur ("with whom your Love is to be associated"); and in ep. 83, c. 2: Injunctum est ab apostolica sede directis, ut in consortium suae deliberationis adscito Constantinopolitanae urbis antistite, etc. ("It has been enjoined on those sent by the apostolic see that, having taken the bishop of the city of Constantinople into partnership in their deliberation", etc.). And that the execution of the pontiff's arrangement was enjoined on the same man is shown by what follows in chapter three: Annitere itaque, ut..... fideliter et efficaciter... exsequaris ("Strive therefore ... to carry out faithfully and effectively"). A little after, in Ratramnus and in three codd.: ea possint agi cuncta cum moderatione.

(b) ‹judicium cogitetur.› · printed under col 923

Quae ut recta observantia valeant custodiri in Ratisp. cod. legitur. Vat. Hisp. et Isid. ac mss. collect. 11. Quod ut... valeant custodire.

Quae ut recta observantia valeant custodiri is read in the Ratisbon cod. Vat. Hisp. and Isid. and the mss. of collection 11: Quod ut... valeant custodire.

Ratisp. cum duobus aliis codd., Vat. in dexteram.

The Ratisbon [codex] with two other codd., Vat.: in dexteram.

(d) ‹synodi nec habere› · printed under col 923

Editi ante Quesn. cum exemplo Sichardi, potuit, Ratisp., potuerit.

The editions before Quesnel, with Sichard's copy: potuit; the Ratisbon: potuerit.

(e) ‹suam Dioscorus,› · printed under col 924

Vindebon. Hisp. inertiam. Vat. Hisp, maestitiam. Ratramnus cum Vat. Isid. et alio collect. 11, industriam

The Vienna Hisp.: inertiam. Vat. Hisp.: maestitiam. Ratramnus with Vat. Isid. and another of collection 11: industriam

(f) ‹synodo vindicarunt, ut› · printed under col 924

Vat. Hisp. et Isid. cum Ratramno et ms. collect. 11 ac 21, humilium.

Vat. Hisp. and Isid., with Ratramnus and the ms. of collections 11 and 21: humilium.

(g) ‹si forte resipiscunt,› · printed under col 924

Vat. Isid., et facti sui defensionem cassantes. Paulo post apud Ratramnum, accedat.

Vat. Isid.: et facti sui defensionem cassantes. A little after, in Ratramnus: accedat.

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running head: 923 · S. LEONIS MAGNI EPISTOLAE. (across the page, page number over this column)
marginal letters: A ‹segniter; cum›; B ‹qua malevolentiam suam›; C ‹refutanda videatur›; D ‹nopolitano injunxisset› (in the footnotes, note a)
old-edition numerals: 1051 after ‹in omnibus›
signature: none
other: none

PL 54:924

debeat aestimetur. Neque prius in Ecclesia, cui te Dominus voluit praesidere, cujusquam talium, ut ante jam scripsimus, nomen ad altare recitetur, quam quid de eis constitui debeat rerum processus ostendat.

[…] ought to be decided may be judged. And let the name of none of such men be recited at the altar in the Church over which the Lord has willed you to preside, as we have already written before, until the course of events shows what ought to be decided about them.

CAP. III. De commonitorio vero, a clericis dilectionis tuae nobis oblato, necessarium non fuit epistolis quid videretur inserere cum sufficeret legatis cuncta committi, quorum sermone ex omnibus diligentius instrueris.

Chap. III. As to the memorandum, however, presented to us by the clerics of your Love, it was not necessary to insert in letters what we thought, since it sufficed to entrust everything to the legates, by whose speech you will be more carefully instructed on all points.

Annitere itaque, frater charissime, ut quae Ecclesiae Dei congruunt, fideliter et efficaciter cum his fratribus, quos tantae rei idoneos auctores elegimus, exsequaris; praesertim cum ipsa vos causae ratio, spesque divini auxilii cohortentur, et clementissimorum principum tam sancta sit fides, tam religiosa devotio, ut in eis non solum Christianum, sed etiam sacerdotalem experiamur affectum. Qui utique pro ea pietate qua se esse Dei famulos gloriantur, omnes suggestiones vestras fidei catholicae profuturas, dignanter accipient, ut ipsorum quoque opere et pax Christiana reparari, et error impius possit aboleri. Ac si de aliquibus amplius fuerit deliberandum, celeriter ad nos relatio dirigatur: ut pertracta qualitate causarum, nostra, quid observari debeat, sollicitudo constituat. Data v idus Junii, Adelfio viro clarissimo consule.

Strive therefore, dearest brother, to carry out faithfully and effectively, together with these brethren whom we have chosen as fit agents in so great a matter, the things that befit the Church of God; especially since the very nature of the cause and the hope of divine help urge you on, and the faith of the most clement princes is so holy and their devotion so religious that we find in them not only a Christian but even a priestly disposition. They, assuredly, in keeping with the piety by which they glory in being servants of God, will graciously receive all your suggestions that will profit the catholic faith, so that by their work too both Christian peace may be restored and impious error abolished. And if anything should need further deliberation concerning any persons, let a report be sent to us quickly, so that, when the nature of the cases has been thoroughly examined, our solicitude may decide what ought to be observed. Given on the fifth day before the Ides of June, in the consulship of Adelfius, a man most illustrious.

EPISTOLA LXXXVI.

LETTER LXXXVI.

AD JULIANUM COENSEM EPISCOPUM.

To Julian, Bishop of Cos.

LEO JULIANO episcopo.

Leo to Bishop Julian.

Quam gratum mihi semper est epistolas tuae dilectionis

As welcome as it always is to me [to receive] the letters of your Love […]

Editors' notes and page, col. 924

Footnotes

(h) ‹cujusquam talium, ut› · printed under col 924

Vat. Hisp. et Isid., ad te jam scripsimus, nimirum epistola 80.

Vat. Hisp. and Isid.: ad te jam scripsimus, namely in letter 80.

(i) ‹cum his fratribus,› · printed under col 924

Lectionem vulgatorum ante Quesnellum restituimus auctoritate Ratisp. exempli Sichardiani, et codicum collect. 12 et 24. Accedit Vindebon. Hisp. in quo solum errore amanuensis constanter ei pro quos tantae rei scriptum fuit. In Vat. Hisp. et Isid. emendatum arbitrio primi scriptoris, constanter quos idoneos: sed in Vat. Hisp. voci constanter subjiciuntur puncta, quae hanc vocem delendam indicant. Quesnellus cum uno nostro Vat. collect. 21, quos tantae curae idoneos.

We have restored the reading of the editions before Quesnel on the authority of the Ratisbon [codex], of Sichard's copy, and of the codices of collections 12 and 24. The Vienna Hisp. agrees, in which only, by a copyist's error, constanter ei was written for quos tantae rei. In Vat. Hisp. and Isid., corrected at the discretion of the first scribe, constanter quos idoneos: but in the Vat. Hisp. dots are set under the word constanter, which show that this word is to be deleted. Quesnel, with one Vat. of ours of collection 21: quos tantae curae idoneos.

(j) ‹praesertim cum› · printed under col 924

Ratisp. Vat. Hisp. ac Isid. addunt et. Paulo post Vindebon. Hisp., cohortetur.

The Ratisbon, Vat. Hisp. and Isid. add et. A little after, the Vienna Hisp.: cohortetur.

(k) ‹sacerdotalem experiamur› · printed under col 924

Vat. Hisp. et Isid., effectum.

Vat. Hisp. and Isid.: effectum.

(l) ‹ipsorum quoque› · printed under col 924

Quesnellus in margine. Alias, ope.

Quesnel in the margin: "Otherwise, ope."

(m) ‹pertracta qualitate› · printed under col 924

Vat. Hisp. Isid. et mss. collect. 12 ac 21, horum nostra.

Vat. Hisp., Isid. and the mss. of collections 12 and 21: horum nostra.

(n) ‹constituat. Data› · printed under col 924

Sic Ratisp. et mss. collect. 12 ac 24, cum Sichardo. Quesnellus, VII idus. Vindebon., VI idus. In Vat. Hisp. et alio collect. 11 erronee VI idus Januarii. Codd. collect, 21, idus Junii.

So the Ratisbon and the mss. of collections 12 and 24, with Sichard. Quesnel: VII idus. The Vienna [codex]: VI idus. In Vat. Hisp. and another of collection 11, wrongly, VI idus Januarii. The codd. of collection 21: idus Junii.

(o) ‹EPISTOLA› · printed under col 924

Al. 66. Quae autem antea 86 erat, nunc 113. Scripta 9 Junii an. 451.

Formerly 66. The one that was formerly 86 is now 113. Written 9 June in the year 451.

(p) ‹AD JULIANUM› · printed under col 924

Edita fuit a Quesnello ex ms. Grim. collect. 18⟨.⟩ Relegimus cum Ratisp. collect. 19.

It was published by Quesnel from the Grimani ms. of collection 18. We have re-read it with the Ratisbon [codex] of collection 19.

Editors' prose

SYNOPSIS. — Pro communi amicitia et Ecclesiae bono sollicitudinem Juliani legatorum suorum curae jungi postulat ad reliquias haereticorum exstinguendas.

Synopsis. — For the sake of their common friendship and the good of the Church, he asks that Julian's solicitude be joined to the care of his legates for extinguishing the remnants of the heretics.

Page

running head: S. LEONIS MAGNI EPISTOLAE. · 924 (across the page, page number over this column)
marginal letters: A ‹debeat aestimetur›; B ‹sancta sit fides›; C ‹postulat ad reliquias› (synopsis); D ‹tur puncta› (in the footnotes, note i)
old-edition numerals: 1052 after ‹fideliter et efficaciter›
signature: none
other: the last word of the column, di-|lectionis, is hyphenated across the break to col 925 and set whole here; the stop after "collect. 18" in note (p) is blotted.

PL 54:925

accipere, tam etiam nostra ad te congruum est scripta deferri, praesertim cum hoc non pro amicitia tantum communi, sed multo magis pro statu universalis Ecclesiae faciamus.

[…] to receive, so fitting is it that our writings too be conveyed to you, especially since we do this not only for the sake of our common friendship, but much more for the state of the universal Church.

Unde per fratres nostros Lucentium episcopum, et Basilium presbyterum, quos Constantinopolim indicaveramus nos esse missuros, debitum reddo colloquium, admonens ut studium diligentiae tuae eisdem in omnibus sociare digneris; ut reliquiae scandalorum, si quae adhuc supersunt, sagaciter auferantur. Quamvis enim ubique jam catholicae fidei lumen eluceat, et, quod est validissimum, Christianorum principum divinis auctoritatibus corda famulentur: quaedam tamen sunt quae ita Ephesinus ille turbo confudit, ut magno moderamine sit agendum, ne mala dissensionum quae inde sunt orta permaneant. Quid itaque legatis nostris injunctum atque commissum sit, ipsorum insinuatione cognosces, eum mihi atque illis impensurus affectum, ut quaecumque ipsis mandata sunt, dilectionis tuae studio et sollicitudine sociata, adjuvante Domino, perveniant ad eum quem optamus effectum. Data v idus Junii, Adelfio viro clarissimo consule.

Therefore, through our brethren Lucentius the bishop and Basil the presbyter, whom we had indicated we would send to Constantinople, I render the conversation I owe, urging that you deign to join the zeal of your diligence to theirs in all things, so that the remnants of the scandals, if any still remain, may be shrewdly removed. For although the light of the catholic faith now shines forth everywhere, and, what is strongest of all, the hearts of the Christian princes are in service to the divine authorities, yet there are some things which that Ephesine whirlwind so threw into confusion that one must act with great restraint, lest the evils of the dissensions which arose from it should persist. What, then, has been enjoined upon and entrusted to our legates, you will learn from their own account; and you will show both to me and to them such affection that whatever has been committed to them, joined with the zeal and solicitude of your Love, may, with the Lord's help, reach the result we desire. Given on the fifth day before the Ides of June, in the consulship of Adelfius, a man most illustrious.

Editors' notes and page, col. 925

Footnotes

(a) ‹quos Constantinopolim› · printed under col 925

Nimirum epist. 81.

Namely letter 81.

(b) ‹diligentiae tuae› · printed under col 925

Sic melius ex Ratisp. quam apud Quesnellum ex Griman., eisdem hominibus. Idem tamen Ratisp. omittit tuae.

So [we read], better from the Ratisbon [codex] than [the reading] in Quesnel from the Grimani [codex], eisdem hominibus. The same Ratisbon, however, omits tuae.

Ratisp., Deo.

The Ratisbon: Deo.

(d) ‹effectum. Data› · printed under col 925

Sic Ratisp. ut in tribus aliis epistolis antecedentibus, quae simul transmissae eodem die Leonino more notantur. Quesnel. ex Grim., VI idus.

So the Ratisbon, as in the three other preceding letters, which, being sent together, are dated with the same day, after Leo's manner. Quesnel from the Grimani [codex]: VI idus.