Quote from Letter 9.55 to Leontius, ex-consul of Sicily. November 598
For that reason, we greet you with paternal love, and ask that you attribute the grace of charity, with which you are equipped, more generously to our glorious son and ex-prefect, Gregory, and that you ensure that justice is preserved for him in all ways, in your usual ways.
Thus, he might experience whatever he hopes to receive from the kindness of your fairness, with the effects of those things, and we too might learn the good things that are proclaimed about you in various ways, and might beseech our almighty Lord assiduously for the safety of your Glory.
For that reason, we greet you with paternal love, and ask that you attribute the grace of charity, with which you are equipped, more generously to our glorious son and ex-prefect, Gregory, and that you ensure that justice is preserved for him in all ways, in your usual ways.
Thus, he might experience whatever he hopes to receive from the kindness of your fairness, with the effects of those things, and we too might learn the good things that are proclaimed about you in various ways, and might beseech our almighty Lord assiduously for the safety of your Glory.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 579
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