162
Riffel, p. 617.
163
Kurth, ii. 35.
164
See Riffel, p. 624.
165
Riffel, p. 625.
166
Ibid., pp. 629-35.
167
See St. Gregory, Epis., x. 51 (vol. ii. 1080), where he writes to the ex-consul Leontius, in Sicily, who had beaten with rods the ex-prefect Libertinus: "Si mihi constare potuisset quia justas causas de suis rationibus haberent, et prius per epistolas vos pulsare habui; et si auditus minime fuissem, serenissimo Domino Imperatori suggererem".
168
Riffel, p. 635.
169
Mansi, xii. 1130.
170
Riffel, 562.
171
Photius, p. 155.
172
Photius, 173.
173
See Gregorovius, ii. 3, 4.
174
Gregorovius, ii. 6.
175
Ibid., ii. 5, literal.
176
Nirschl, iii. 534.
177
Third letter of Pelagius II.; Mansi ix., p. 889: Nefandissima gens.
178
Attested by St. Gregory of Tours, who heard it from a deacon of his church then at Rome.
179
Ep. i. 25, p. 514.
180
Homily xviii. on Ezechiel, tom. i. 1374.
181
Nahum ii, 11.
182
Micheas i. 16.
183
End of the Homilies on Ezechiel, tom. i. 1430.
184
Quoted by Reumont, ii. 90.
185
Ep. v. 42, p. 769.
186
Reumont and Gregorovius.