11. Arles.
12. Above is a translation of a sentence twenty lines long in the Latin, with several anacolutha.
13. de cetero, an emendation for the de secreto of the MS., which cannot be translated.
14. quaeque non inmerito finem debent accipere maturum. This can only be translated by leaving out quaeque, which has probably slipped into the MS.
15. decernat. The MS. reads decernet.
16. merita reverentia salutamus.
17. The Editors read graves ac perniciosos legi nostrae atque traditioni effrenatae mentis homines pertulimus. Ziwsa for graves ac perniciosos reads gravem ac perniciosam, for legi, traditioni, he reads legis, traditionis, and supplies iniuriam et between traditionis and effrenatae.
18. Dei nostri praesens auctoritas.
19. ita respuit, ut.
20. ut nulla in iis ant dicendi ratio subsisteret aut accusandi modus ullus aut probatio conveniret.
21. aut damnati sunt aut repulsi.
22. tamen.
23. observare.
24. The MS. has ex his qui singulos quos monebat. Du Pin observes that there must be a lacuna between quos and monebat. Ziwsa changes quos to quosque and monebat to movebant. This I have translated in the text.
25. The MS. reads antequam ante a te. This is manifestly corrupt. Ziwsa reads antea ad te scribi.
26. qui maiores dioeceseos tenes (so the MS. Hefele, History of the Councils, i. 204, note 2, suggests that the word gubernacula had fallen out. In this case maiores should be maioris). The editors read maiores dioeceses. Dioecesis is a province of the Empire (cf. 'mirifica expectatio est Asiae nostrarum dioecesium ' Cic.). Antioch, for example, was the capital of the dioecesis Oriens, and the Bishop or Patriarch of Antioch had jurisdiction over that vast province. The context shows that the Pope is over all these 'greater provinces,' so that he can intimate the decision to the whole East and West.
27. per te potissimum omnibus insinuari.
28. Reading, with Ziwsa, quia for the qui of the MS.
29. Reading with the editors de his etiam for de his agitur of the MS.
30. qui arma proiiciunt in pace.
31. de his. The MS. has de his agitur.
32. credere. So Ziwsa. The MS. has recedere.
33. The MS. has de Africa. The editors read de Afris.
34. manus tantum ei imponatur.
35. etcetera. The text of the letter is here broken off, and the interruption is marked by an etcetera.