Letter 11089: I am writing to you as well about the unjust encroachment on Faustus's property.

Gregory the Great (Wisigothic)John|c. 597 AD|Pope Gregory the Great|To John (recipient)|AI-assisted
education booksproperty economics

To John, Bishop of Syracuse.

On the boundaries of the estates of Faustus, unjustly trespassed upon.

Gregory to John, Bishop of Syracuse.

[The body of the letter is not preserved in the source text; what follows is the editorial critical apparatus.]

Letter 40 [otherwise 34, indiction 6]. The Vatican codex gives "corruption of the blood" (corruptionem sanguinis); other manuscripts give "rupture" (ruptionem), or "ruptures of the blood" (ruptiones sanguinis). See above, letter 35.

Letter 41 [otherwise 35]. That is, "let it be restored" (restituatur). In the same sense in Cassiodorus, Variae, book 8, letter 25: "we order the estates... to be reformed." Bernard likewise, in his sermon on Saint Martin: "peace having been reformed" (that is, restored), [...] in peace [...].

Letter 42 [otherwise 36]. Namely, the man who has been despoiled must, before all else, be restored, according to the strict letter of the law.

Letter 43 [otherwise 37]. So the Vatican codex A and the Remigian codex.

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Latin / Greek Original

AD JOANNEM SYRACUSANUM EPISCOPUNM.
De possessionum Fausti finibus injuste pervasis.
Gregorius Joanui episcopo Syracusano.

Eersr. XL. [Al. 34, ind. 6]. * Vatic. Det E, cor-
ruptionem sanguinis. Alii, ruptionem, vel ruptiones
$arquinis. Vide, Supra, epist. 35.

Ferisr, XL | Al. 35]. — * Hoe est, res/ituatur.
Eodem $ensu apud Cassivdorum , lib. vin Var., epist.
25, massas.... precipimus reſormari. Bernardus quo-
que, $erm, de sancto Martino : reſormata pace (id est
"eslitula), 1m pace qui-vil.

Eeisr. XL [Al, 36]. — © Nimirum <poliatus ante
omnia restituendus est, juxta juris apices.

Eertsr, XLIII (Al. 37]. — * Na Vatic. A et Remig.

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