Letter 182: Part of the papal correspondence surrounding the Acacian Schism (484-519), the major breach between Rome and...

Hormisdas to our legates mentioned above. It is necessary that we give thought either to the state of the business enjoined upon you or to the absence of your beloved selves, and on account of these matters our concern does not permit us to let slip any occasions for writing. Before this, through the magistrian who returned in the service of the patrician Symmachus, we sent letters to your charity, urging you not to neglect to inform us about all the things that have been done or are being done in the ecclesiastical cause; and this you ought also to do for the relief of our anxious thought. For it is our prayer that almighty God may deign to grant the desired result to your labor. As for Stephen the merchant, through whom our words are being delivered to you, assist him with suitable supports wherever reason shall require it, since you recall that he has always been ours. Given on the same day.

a- 519 a. Hormisdae papac ad eosdem. 29April. *^ *^ (jeslil doceri de iis, quae perfecerinU nc Stephnnum negotiatorem eis commendat, Hormisda legatis nostris quibus supra. Necesse est, ut vel de injunctae actionis statu vel de vestrae dilectionis cogitemus absentia, et pro his rebus sollicitudo nostra uon patitur scribendi quaslibet occasiones omittere. Antehac per magistrianum , qui iii Symmachi patricii remeavit obsequium, litie- ras caritati vestrfie direximus, hortantes, ut nos de universis, quae in causa ecclesiastica gesta sunt vel geruntur, non omitteretis in- struere; quod et facere pro nostrae cogitationis relevatione debetis, Nostri enim voti est, ut labori vestro Deus omnipotens desideratum concedere dignetur eflFectum. Stephanum negotiatorem, per quem • vobis nostra contradentur alloquia, in quo ratio •poposcerit, eom- petentibus solatiis adjuvate, quia hunc semper nostrum fuisse reco- litis. Data eodem die.