Quote from Letter9.24 to Martin, rhetorician October 598
A plea arising from paltry affairs might nevertheless
need quite a full examination, as your Greatness well knows, and so your Wisdom
should consider how much care and how much vigilance ought to be used in
examining cases that involve bishops. But in the latter that you sent over
through the bearer of the present one, you spoke only superfillially, and kept
completely silent about the source of the cases which you had been sent over to
us by Crementius, our brother and felllow-bishop. If their origin and true
nature had been clear to us, we would have at least have sent an open and
suitable reply to our aforesaid brother, to confirm him in his decesion over
this matter.
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