Quote from Letter 9.120 to Fantinus, defender. February-April 599
Let your experience was our most reverend brother and fellow-bishop, Victor, preserving your honor, that he is either keen to terminate the case itself peacefully, without delay, or certainly, if he believes that it is more expedient for him that it be decided in court, he should legally appoint a person on his behalf, avoiding any delay (...). And whatever will have been decided by them [the judges], with the holy gospels as their witness, we want to be made effective through your authority, preserving the law, in such a way that nothing remains between the two parties whereby they could wear each other out afterwards with recurring litigation.
Let your experience was our most reverend brother and fellow-bishop, Victor, preserving your honor, that he is either keen to terminate the case itself peacefully, without delay, or certainly, if he believes that it is more expedient for him that it be decided in court, he should legally appoint a person on his behalf, avoiding any delay (...). And whatever will have been decided by them [the judges], with the holy gospels as their witness, we want to be made effective through your authority, preserving the law, in such a way that nothing remains between the two parties whereby they could wear each other out afterwards with recurring litigation.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 614
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