113
Hergenröther, K.G., i. 333.
114
See Photius, i. 149.
115
Mansi, viii. 795-99.
116
This refers to the reunion of a great portion of the eastern Church, which had fallen a prey to the most manifold errors since the Council of Chalcedon. – Riffel, p. 543.
117
Savigny, Geschichte des römischen Rechts im Mittelalter, 1834, i. 36. Quoted by Rump, ix. 72.
118
Ep. xi. 2: Sedes illa toto orbe mirabilis licet generalis mundo sit prædita.
119
Nov. cxxxi. c. 2: θεσπίζομεν τὸν ἁγιώτατον τῆς πρεσβυτέρας Ρώμης πάπαν πρῶτον εἶναι πάντων τῶν ἱερέων.. τῇ γνώμῃ καὶ ὀρθῇ κρίσει τοῦ ἐκείνου σεβασμίου θρόνου κατηργήθησαν. Nov. ix. init.: Pontificatus apicem apud eam (Romam anteriorem) esse nemo est qui dubitet. – Photius, p. 156.
120
Translated from Photius, p. 156.
121
"Cesare fui e son Giustiniano,
Che, per voler del primo amor ch'io sento,
Dentro alle leggi trassi il troppo e il vano."
– Paradiso, vi. 10.
122
This paragraph translated from Rump, ix. 70.
123
Rump, viii. 487.
124
Account from Rump, ix. 172-4, compressed.
125
Respondeat mens illa Sancto Spiritui serviens.
126
Mansi, viii. 808.
127
Mansi, viii. 849.
128
See Baronius, A.D. 535, sec. 40; Hefele, ii. 736-8; Rump, ix. 174-6; Novell. xxxix. De Africana Ecclesia.
129
Photius, i. 153-4: words of Hergenröther, who quotes eastern historians, who call him μεγαλοπρεπέστερος ἀνάκτων τῶν προτέρων.. μεγαλουργὸς κράτωρ.
130
Mansi, viii. 846.
131
Photius, i. 160-2; Rump, ix. 181.
132
Photius, i. 163. The words which concern the conduct of Vigilius are taken from Cardinal Hergenröther. Baronius, A.D. 538, sec. 5, gives from Anastasius the words of the empress, and the Pope's answer, and the following narrative.
133
Gregorovius, i. 372. See Liberatus, Breviarium, ch. xxii.
134
Liberatus, Breviarium.
135
Reumont, ii. 49.
136
St. Gregory, Dialogues, ii. 14, 18.