Letter 5034: Gregory to Cyprianus, deacon [rector of the papal patrimony in Sicily].

To Cyprian the Deacon. That he should restore Cicero, a monk who has lapsed, to the Church of Misenum, of which he had been a servant [bondsman]. Gregory to Cyprian the deacon. Benenatus, our brother and fellow bishop, [reports that] a certain monk named Cicero, who on account of his own transgressions [...] restore the aforesaid Cicero, together with his property, which is said to have been deposited with Fantinus the defensor [Church estate agent], to the ownership of the Church of Misenum without any delay, so that, after he has torn himself away from the monastic way of life through the lapse of his fault, he may once more acknowledge the yoke of that ownership which, by remaining in his monastic calling, he had been able to escape. In the month of May, in the thirteenth indiction.

AD CYPRIANUM DIACONUM. Ciceronem monachum lapsum Misenati Ecclesic, cujus ſuerat ſamulus, reslituat. Gregorius Cypriano diacono. « Benenatus frater et coepiscopus nos{er Cicero- nem quemdam monachum, Þ qui pro svis excessibus 4 Excusi, in eos, ubi frus!ira quareretur sensus, [d- eoque legendum in eorum, scilicel pena, quod etiam nos docuerunt Mss. omnes Vatic., Norm., Collectio Pauli, etc. Inſra, ex iisdem Mss. mulia reslituimns. in non vales, ut grammatic:e legibus caverent. At observare debuerant Gregorium frequenter usurpare verba deponentia in passiva S8ignificatione, ut hic nn ſ Libertino, vide epist. 38 lib. m. EyrsT. XX XIII [Al. 26]. — © De eo proxime epi- SLola 15 et 44 hnjus libri. In Norm. et aliis non pau- cis omittitur No/aao. | Qui bene presunt presbyteri duplici honore digni sunl, mazxime qui laborant in verbo et doctrina. Concinit Cyprianus, epist. 34, ubi de Celerino et Avrelio le- ctoribus : Sportulis, inquit, iisdem cum- presbyleris konorentur, e! divisiones mensurnas @equalis quantita- tibus partiantur, c1c. Lege libelium Theodori diaconi ad Levnem papam, et Chalcedonens. synod., ubi de militia multorum annorum , ut clericatum mereretur. Act. 5 ejuviem concil. Gussaxv. ..© In Vatic. legitur, mense Martio, indict, 13. SANCTI GRECORII MACGNI A prascriptum Cirervaem cum rebus suis, que apud Fantinum defensorem dicuntur esse depositz, do- minio © Misenatis Ecclesiz +ine aliqua dilatione re- Stitne, 4 ut poztquam a monachica conversalione culpz lapsu $e abripuit, * jugum dominii, quod eva- dere in conversatione permaneus poterat, recogno- Scat. ' Mense Maio, indictione 13.