To prevent controversy over secular affairs from separating the hearts of religious men from loving each other, great care should be taken to ensure that a matter brought into altercation might receive the easiest conclusions.
Thus, from the indication of Caesarius, abbot of the monastery of Saint Peter, established in a place called Baieae, we have found out that a serious question has arisen about certain boundaries, lying between him and John, abbot of the monastery of Saint lucia, established in the city of Syracuse.
Therefore, so that the tension itself between them should not be prolonged, we have provided that their controversy should be concluded by the measurement of a surveyor.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 492
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