Quote from Letter 9.42 to John, bishop of Syracuse. October 598
(Y)ou must provide agents of your church, avoiding any further delay, to select judges with him [Felix, who has made an official complaint], who can conduct an inquiry into a matter of substance and principal, and finalize it.
Otherwise, if any sort of excuse has delayed it, he himself might seem to suffer prejudice, and the parties of the church might seem to receive no justice.
And so, take appropriate action to have the court chosen with all speed. For we want cases of your church to be so handled that he should not sustain a loss unfairly, and nothing might arouse odium against you.
(Y)ou must provide agents of your church, avoiding any further delay, to select judges with him [Felix, who has made an official complaint], who can conduct an inquiry into a matter of substance and principal, and finalize it.
Otherwise, if any sort of excuse has delayed it, he himself might seem to suffer prejudice, and the parties of the church might seem to receive no justice.
And so, take appropriate action to have the court chosen with all speed. For we want cases of your church to be so handled that he should not sustain a loss unfairly, and nothing might arouse odium against you.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 570
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