Quote from Letter 9.107 to Romanus, defender. February 599
we believe that it is not unknown to your Experience what sort of necessity various officials of the palace of the city of Rome are enduring over their grain supply. And so, the bearers of this letter have chosen to send them all over there, instead of themselves, to plead at the palace of our glorious Leontius, as to how that grain might be supplied to them, as it has been provided by our most serene emperor.
we believe that it is not unknown to your Experience what sort of necessity various officials of the palace of the city of Rome are enduring over their grain supply. And so, the bearers of this letter have chosen to send them all over there, instead of themselves, to plead at the palace of our glorious Leontius, as to how that grain might be supplied to them, as it has been provided by our most serene emperor.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 607
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