Letter 9199: I am writing to follow up on the instructions I gave you last November, in the second indiction, concerning the...
In the month of November of the present second indiction, by our injunction we charge your Experience that you ought to have restored to Callixenus, the son of Stephana, the house of the estate of Catina, which Mammosa, the grandmother of the same Callixenus, had conferred upon our church by a donation duly made, returning to him that same donation; but this, as is said, you have put off doing on the excuse that no record of the same donation had been entered in the registers. Know that you have said this improperly, since the document of our precept may well be quite sufficient for your protection. Therefore, having received the present authority, restore without delay to the aforesaid orphan Callixenus the aforementioned house and donation. For we know that he himself also perceives what is just, and yet we, of our kindness, bestow the abovementioned house upon the same aforesaid orphan.
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Latin / Greek Original
Menee NoTembrio praesentiB Bectmdae indictionis experieQtiae tuae praeceptione
noatra mandamuB, ut Caliixeno* filio^ Stepbamae*' dommn Catlienae poBaessionis^, quam
Mammoaia* avia eiuedem Callizeni* ecclesiae nostrae faota donatione' contolerat,
reddere ei donationem eandem debuissesB'; qaod hac, ut dicitur, excosatione facere
distulistj^ quia Dotitia ' eiusdem donationis non eeaet^ de pollyptycliiB ' caraxata*. Quod
incongrue te" dixisse cognoBcas, dum ad munitionem" tuam praecepti Dosbi pagina
possit valde aufGcere. Proinde praesenti auctoritate suscepta praedictam domum et
donationem antefato" Callixeno^ orfano aine mora reBtitue. Nam quod iuBtum et
ipse sentiat^, Dovimua, et nos tamcD praedicto'' eidem orfano BUpraacripto* domum
es benigmtate largimur.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern gregory great retranslated v1.
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