Quote from Letter 9.65 to Maurentius, general. November-December 598
And because we have heard that he [the administrator Comitaticius] is not with you now, as he was before, we ask your Glory that if there is any way in which he perhaps rightly offended your feelings, you should tell us what it is, but then show him the extent of your graciousness and receive him with that friendship which he had long shared with your, and devote your goodwill to him, as being truly your friend, as is reasonable, wherever the occasion requires it.
And because we have heard that he [the administrator Comitaticius] is not with you now, as he was before, we ask your Glory that if there is any way in which he perhaps rightly offended your feelings, you should tell us what it is, but then show him the extent of your graciousness and receive him with that friendship which he had long shared with your, and devote your goodwill to him, as being truly your friend, as is reasonable, wherever the occasion requires it.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 583
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