Gregory to Secundinus and John, bishops of Sicily. The love of good sons urges us to concur zealously with their advantages, and to help them insofar as reason allows. And therefore, because insofar as our glorious son Gregory, the ex-prefect, showed himself kind toward all, so much ought he to enjoy the comforts of all, we exhort your Fraternity by these words that, when he comes yonder, you may hasten—both with Leontius, the glorious ex-consul, in the arranging of his accounts, and with others wherever the cause may require—to bring aid and to relieve his interests, justice favouring it, so that, with you concurring in priestly fashion, he may be able to incur no annoyance or loss contrary to the order of equity.
But if—which we do not believe—you should perceive him to be burdened in any matter without cause, it is necessary that you act with the aforesaid glorious man, episcopal modesty being preserved, so that he ought to keep and observe the word which he gave to him through Azimarchus, the magnificent scribo, and by no means suffer him to be unreasonably molested or to sustain loss. So therefore let your Fraternity take care to show itself solicitous toward him, and strive to conduct itself in his affairs according to God, so that he may find both priestly support in you and fatherly charity.