(For) whatever the case may have been, fury ought not to have broken out to the extent that armed men of yours, as we have heard, rushed into the bishop's home, and committed various wiched acts just like a foreign foe, and meanwhile this business has divided you from our Father's love. Whatever the argument was, could it not be settled peacefully at all, so that the goodness of the parties should suffer no loss and their friendship no injury?
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 432
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