Quote from Letter 9.96 to [a nobleman]. January 599
I am most delighted to hear that your Glory is extremely firm and stable in your morality. Thus I say things confidentially to you that displease me, as if talking to a special son of mine.
For a most excellent exarch is saying some things that could excite all those who love him to become his enemies. On this matter, I dictated for him expressly through the bearer of this letter what I though should be read again. If this pleases you, read it yourself also, so that you know what you should write to him concerning the same matter.
I am most delighted to hear that your Glory is extremely firm and stable in your morality. Thus I say things confidentially to you that displease me, as if talking to a special son of mine.
For a most excellent exarch is saying some things that could excite all those who love him to become his enemies. On this matter, I dictated for him expressly through the bearer of this letter what I though should be read again. If this pleases you, read it yourself also, so that you know what you should write to him concerning the same matter.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 601
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