Letter 8: 1 domorum sui whom (corr.

[...the bishop] of the city of Alexandria, when he had been dispatched in this novel fashion, I recognized the victory of your faith in his restoration; for, your piety being upheld by the aid of the Godhead, both the tranquility of the empire and the integrity of the catholic religion has returned, the cloud of scandals having been scattered by its own splendor. Concerning which I recall that I rendered thanks, after God, to your clemency, and now too I could not keep silent about the homage owed to your reign, lest in some manner I should seem ungrateful, if at any opportunity whatsoever I should cease to praise so many triumphs of the empire or of the churches. Therefore, presenting the duty of the veneration that is owed, I pray that you may more zealously bestow the aid of your protection upon all priests of the right faith, and especially upon the bishop of Alexandria, of whose contest you were both witnesses and judges, and that you may decree by your most pious enactments that Peter, the usurper of that same see-who could not even maintain his rank in the diaconate-be banished farther away from so renowned a city, lest perchance he lead astray some of weaker faith and, which God forbid, in that same church stir up again the scandals that have been laid to rest. You have proved in this work that He has granted you the protection of His right hand, who, for the joy of the whole world and for the exultation of the universal church, preserves the Roman empire in your clemency. Given on the twelfth day before the Kalends of November, in the consulship of the distinguished man So-and-so. Through the legates of the Greeks.

1 domorum sui quem (corr. o) similium V, domor[sntermediis hodie awuulsis]milium B confouetur Car.: confoueatur V, confortetur B 2 episcop[atu hodie awwlsum est] B 8. sq. ab ecclesiastica pace specia- liter B 5 aliquam V 7 immo B: om. V, et Car. ut cum B: uacum V 8 reneare ceperit .B altera V: aliqua B, alia. Hartel 9 repperitur V 11 timotheis B 12 fatisfactionis V fidei V: dei B 18 utrique o: utique 2j, uterque V dominationis VB: damna- tionis edd. transduxerant B 14 postulantes V sacerdotali pietate om. B 15 diuina V 16 putamus zxpLicir reliquis omissis V: potamus B 17 VIII scripsi (cf. ep. 62): XI B illu uc cons B deinde hic addens: per peirum us comitem placidiae nobilis fiemine (cf. ep. 61 tit.) 04. — Dat. simul cum ep. 65 a. 478 mensis Oclobr. die fere 21. B — Berol. lat. 79. Edd. Car. I? 320; Collect. Concil.; BTA I 220; Thiel 199; commemorat Bar. ad a. 478, 11. 19 Symplicius VB episcopus om. 8 avauro V 20 coepui V 10 20 Epist. LXIII 5 — LXIV 2. 145 Alexandrinae urbis. antistes nouato more misisset, uictoriam uestrae fidei in eius restitutione cognoui; pietate enim uestra fulta diuinitatis auxilio et imperii tranquillitas et catholicae religionis splendore suo scandalorum nube discussa reuertit integritas. de quo me gratias post deum clementiae uestrae egisse reminiscor et nune quoque cultum uestro regno debitum silere non potui, ne quodam modo uiderer ingratus, si uobis qualibet oportunitate uel imperii uel ecclesiarum laudare desisterem tot triumphos. exhibens ergo debitae uenerationis officium precor, ut studiosius circa uniuersos rectae fidei sacerdotes et maxime cirea Alexandrinum episcopunt, cuius certaminis et testes fuistis et iudices, protectionis impendatis auxilium et decernatis piissimis constitutis Petrum sedis ipsius peruasorem, cui nec in diaconatu suus potuit ordo constare, longius a tam praeclara ciuitate relegari, ne infirmioris fidei aliquos forte seducat et in eadem ecclesia, quod absit, quae sopistis scandala rursus exagitet. probastis in hoe opere illum uobis dexterae suae dedisse praesidium, qui ad totius orbis gaudium et in ecclesiae uniuersalis exultationem in uestra clementia Romanum seruat imperium. Dat. XII. Kal. Nouembr. Illo u. e. cons. Per legatos Graecorum. XXXV. 10 146 Simplicii papae epistulae