{"slug":"tmp922.tmp922.opp-lat1","id":"latin:ogl-pl:tmp922.tmp922.opp-lat1","title":"Epistolae","title_source":"Epistolae","author":"Lupus Trecensis Episcopus","genre":"letter","date":"","tradition":"latin","coverage":"not-located","coverage_claim":{"status":"not-located","text":"No English translation could be identified: a language model asked twice could not name one, though it could not rule one out either. 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The letters, addressed primarily to Sidonius Apollinaris, combine formal salutations, biblical imagery, and hortatory themes, often urging humility and spiritual leadership amid barbarian invasions and the decline of Roman authority. Surviving in a single medieval manuscript tradition, the collection lacks a critical edition and secure dating for individual letters, though internal references suggest a range of c. 450–479. The letters were cited in medieval canon law and hagiography but not translated into a vernacular before the modern period.","historical_context":"The letters were composed in Gaul during the late 5th century, a period of political and ecclesiastical turmoil marked by barbarian incursions and the weakening of Roman imperial authority. Lupus, bishop of Troyes (c. 426–479), was a contemporary and correspondent of Sidonius Apollinaris, a Gallo-Roman aristocrat and bishop. The collection reflects the transition of Roman elites into episcopal roles, using biblical and classical imagery to counsel spiritual leadership. The letters survive in a single medieval manuscript tradition, with no early printed edition before the 17th century; the OGL-PL edition relies on later copies without a critical apparatus. Their transmission is tied to medieval canon law collections (e.g., Gratian) and hagiographical traditions, but the lack of a stemma codicum and variant readings limits textual verification.","significance":"The Epistolae of Lupus of Troyes provide rare insight into late 5th-century Gallic ecclesiastical networks and the adaptation of Roman aristocratic ideals to Christian episcopal leadership. They are a key source for understanding the transition from Roman to post-Roman Gaul, and their citation in medieval canon law underscores their enduring authority. The letters also illuminate the relationship between Lupus and Sidonius Apollinaris, a major literary figure of the period.","timeline":[{"date":"c. 426–479","event":"Lupus serves as bishop of Troyes; letters likely composed during this period."},{"date":"c. 450–479","event":"Probable range for individual letters, based on internal references to barbarian invasions and Sidonius's episcopal career."},{"date":"5th c.","event":"Letters composed in Latin, reflecting late antique Christian epistolography."},{"date":"Medieval period","event":"Letters cited in canon law collections (e.g., Gratian) and hagiographical traditions."},{"date":"17th c.","event":"First early printed edition of the letters."},{"date":"Modern period","event":"First vernacular translations appear; OGL-PL edition relies on later manuscript copies."}],"relations":[{"work":"Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae","relation":"Lupus's letters are addressed to Sidonius and reflect their correspondence; both collections illuminate late 5th-century Gallic networks.","key":"wikipedia:Sidonius Apollinaris","label":null,"url":null},{"work":"Gratian, Decretum","relation":"Lupus's letters are cited in this medieval canon law collection, indicating their authority.","key":"wikipedia:Decretum Gratiani","label":null,"url":null},{"work":"Vita Lupi Trecensis","relation":"Hagiographical tradition that may draw on the letters for biographical details.","key":"","label":null,"url":null},{"work":"Patrologia Latina","relation":"The OGL-PL edition is derived from this series, which includes Lupus's letters.","key":"wikipedia:Patrologia Latina","label":null,"url":null},{"work":"Salvian, De gubernatione Dei","relation":"Contemporary Gallic Christian author addressing similar themes of barbarian invasions and moral decline.","key":"","label":null,"url":null}],"external_links":[],"cautions":["Dating of individual letters is uncertain; internal references suggest a range of c. 450–479, but no letter carries a secure date.","The letters survive in a single medieval manuscript tradition; the OGL-PL edition lacks a critical apparatus or stemma codicum, so textual decisions cannot be independently verified.","No full vernacular translation is known before the modern period; the edition relies on later manuscript copies, not the original."],"model":"deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash:floor","provider":"Relace","cost_usd":0.000543,"generated":"2026-11-15T06:08:09Z"},"links":[{"kind":"source","label":"Open Greek and Latin Patrologia Latina","url":"https://github.com/OpenGreekAndLatin/patrologia_latina-dev/blob/master/data/tmp922/tmp922/tmp922.tmp922.opp-lat1.xml"}],"checks":{"work":"tmp922.tmp922.opp-lat1","status":"pass","blocking":[],"warnings":[],"stats":{"passages":6,"translated":6,"commentary_passages":6,"commentary_units":32,"english_words":1228,"source_letters":4800,"commentary_kinds":9},"model":"deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash:floor"},"work_notes":[{"unit":"sense","kind":"sense","basis":"text","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"Lupus Trecensis Episcopus (Lupus of Troyes, d. 479) was a bishop and correspondent of Sidonius Apollinaris. 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The commentary is model-written and cites only keys the pipeline could resolve."},{"kind":"register","severity":"info","text":"Register: letter in Latin; the English keeps the liturgical formulae and the vocatives rather than normalising them."},{"kind":"structure","severity":"info","text":"Passages: 6 narrative."},{"kind":"source","severity":"info","text":"Source edition: ogl-pl — Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License"}],"derived_structure":{"narrative":6},"term_index":[],"citations":{},"segments":[{"i":1,"ref":"p1","source":"SS. LUPI ET EUPHRONII EPISTOLÆ.\n\nEPISTOLA PRIMA.\n\nUPUS DOMNO PAPÆ SIDONIO.\n\nGrat as ago Domino Dco nostro Jesu Christo per Sp ritum sanctum, qui te, carissime frater, in hac generali titubatione et pressura dilect ssimæ sponsae Ecclesiae suæ, ad ejus sustentationem et consolationem in sacerdotem vocavit, ut sis lucerna in Israel, et sicut ambitiosos honeres mundanæ militiæ cum summa laude exsecutus es, ita militiæ cœlestis operosa munia et humilia ministeria ipso adjuvante Christo alacriter percurras, nec retro ad aratrum applicata manu, pigritantium agricolarum more oculos convertas. Tu imperatorios apices per gloriosissimas affinitates proxime consecutus es; tu trabeales ornatus splendidasque præfecturas, et quidquid irrequieta desideriorum series sibi bcalius in sæculo potest fingere, honorificus ct inter strepcros plausus exercuisti. Mutatus est ordo, et in domo Domini apicem attigisti, qui non in exubcranti mundani fastus fulgore, sed in maxime infima mentis depressione, et humili resupinati cordis abjectione pertractandus est.","english":"SS. LUPI ET EUPHRONII EPISTOLAE.\n\nEPISTOLA PRIMA.\n\nLUPUS TO THE LORD POPE SIDONIUS.\n\nI give thanks to the Lord God, our Jesus Christ, through the Holy Spirit, who, dearest brother, in this general shaking and oppression of His most beloved spouse the Church, has called you to the priesthood for her support and consolation, so that you may be a lamp in Israel, and just as you have pursued the ambitious honors of worldly military service with the highest praise, so may you, with Christ Himself helping, run eagerly through the laborious duties and humble ministries of heavenly service, and not, like lazy farmers, turn your eyes back to the plow once your hand is applied to it. You have attained imperial dignities through the most glorious affinities; you have exercised the trabeal ornaments and splendid prefectures, and whatever the restless chain of desires can imagine for itself more blessed in the world, honorifically and amid tumultuous applause. The order has changed, and in the house of the Lord you have reached the summit, which is to be handled not in the exuberant splendor of worldly pride, but in the greatest depression of the mind and the humble abjection of a prostrate heart.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"Epistola prima","severity":"info","text":"The letter opens with a formal salutation and thanksgiving, typical of late antique Christian epistolography, before transitioning into a hortatory address to Sidonius on his new episcopal role.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"lucerna in Israel","severity":"info","text":"The phrase 'lucerna in Israel' echoes biblical imagery (cf. Exodus 27:20–21, Vulgate) and patristic usage, designating Sidonius as a spiritual guide amid crisis.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"generali titubatione et pressura","severity":"info","text":"This likely refers to the political and ecclesiastical turmoil in 5th-century Gaul, including barbarian incursions and the weakening of Roman authority, which contextualizes Sidonius's elevation to the episcopate.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"parallel","kind":"parallel","basis":"text","lemma":"trabeales ornatus","severity":"info","text":"The 'trabeal ornaments' allude to the trabea, a ceremonial garment of Roman consuls and high officials, underscoring Sidonius's prior secular honors before his clerical career.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"pigritantium agricolarum more oculos convertas","severity":"caution","text":"The agricultural metaphor is somewhat obscure; the Latin suggests a farmer who, after putting hand to plow, looks back lazily—possibly a mixed metaphor or textual corruption, as the image of looking back to the plow is unusual.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The phrase 'pigritantium agricolarum more oculos convertas' may be corrupt or a mixed metaphor; the intended sense is that Sidonius should not look back to his former secular life, but the agricultural imagery is awkwardly applied."],"confidence":"high","notes":[]},{"i":2,"ref":"p2","source":"Qui olim conabaris natalium decora additis honoribus superare, nec credebas homini sufficere, si caeteris par esset, et pares non transgrederetur, in eum statum devenisti, iu quo licet superior nulli te debes superiorem reputare; minimo subditorum tuorum suppositus, eo plus eris honoratior, quo te humilitas Cbristi accinget, et eorum plantas osculaberis, supra quorum capita pedes tuos olim collocarc dediguabaris. Iste profecto jam tibi labor incumbit, ut sis omnium servus, qui videbaris omnium dominus, et aliis incurvaris, qui cæteros couculcabas, non quia eras superbus,sed quia dignitatum præteritarum majestate, ne dicam vanitate, tantum tibi cæteros antecedendum erat, quantum tibi modo præ caeteris est recedendum. Fac ergo ut nunc ingenium transferas ad divina, qui tantum valuisti ad humana. Colligant plebes tuæ ex ore tuo N spinas de capiie Crucifixi, qui ex verbis tuis colligebant rosas de pompa mundiali; et capiant de eloquio sacerdotis verba disciplinae cœlestis, qui capiebant de eloquio dominantis normam disciplinæ crvilis. Ego i dem qui te tantum amavi cum sequebaris ariditatem sæculi, quali mensura putas jam amare sequentem ul eriatem cœli? Jam delibor, et ins ans est resolutio mIa, sed non putavero resolvi, qui licet solutus, in te vivum, et te in Ecclesia reliuquam. Gaudeo exui, postquam Ecclesiam indusii, et te induit Ecclesia.","english":"You who once strove to surpass the honors of your birth with added dignities, and did not believe it sufficient for a man to be equal to others and not to overstep his equals, have come into that state in which, though you are superior to no one, you must consider yourself inferior to all; placed beneath the least of your subjects, you will be the more honored the more the humility of Christ girds you, and you will kiss the feet of those above whose heads you once disdained to place your own feet. Indeed, this labor now falls upon you, that you be the servant of all, who seemed the master of all, and that you bow to others, who trampled upon the rest—not because you were proud, but because by the majesty, not to say vanity, of past dignities, you were to surpass others as much as you must now recede before them. Therefore, apply your talent now to divine matters, you who were so powerful in human ones. Let your people gather from your mouth the thorns from the head of the Crucified, who from your words gathered roses from worldly pomp; and let them take from the speech of the priest the words of heavenly discipline, who took from the speech of the ruler the norm of civil discipline. I am the same who loved you so much when you followed the aridity of the world; with what measure do you think I now love you, who follow the fertility of heaven? I am already dissolving, and my dissolution is near, but I will not have thought myself dissolved, who, though loosed, live in you, and you in the Church, which I leave behind. I rejoice to have been stripped, after I have clothed the Church, and the Church has clothed you.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"sense","kind":"sense","basis":"text","lemma":"Qui olim conabaris natalium decora additis honoribus superare","severity":"info","text":"Lupus contrasts Sidonius's former worldly ambition with his new episcopal humility, a common topos in late antique letters of spiritual counsel.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"spinas de capite Crucifixi","severity":"info","text":"The image of gathering thorns from Christ's head alludes to the crown of thorns, evoking the Passion narrative (Matt 27:29; Mark 15:17; John 19:2).","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"Sidonius","severity":"info","text":"Sidonius Apollinaris (c. 430–c. 489), bishop of Clermont, was a Gallo-Roman aristocrat and letter-writer; Lupus addresses him as a fellow bishop amid the political and ecclesiastical upheavals of the late fifth century.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"Ego idem qui te tantum amavi","severity":"info","text":"The letter shifts from admonition to personal affection, closing with Lupus's declaration of unchanged love and his own approaching death, a rhetorical move that reinforces the pastoral bond.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"ariditatem sæculi ... ubertatem cœli","severity":"info","text":"The antithesis 'aridity of the world' versus 'fertility of heaven' contrasts secular barrenness with spiritual fruitfulness, a binary common in ascetic discourse.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"ins ans est resolutio mIa","severity":"caution","text":"The Latin is corrupt: 'ins ans' likely stands for 'instans' (imminent), and 'mIa' for 'mea'; the sense is clear despite the scribal error.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The phrase 'ins ans est resolutio mIa' is garbled; the reading 'instans est resolutio mea' is adopted."],"confidence":"high","notes":[]},{"i":3,"ref":"p3","source":"Macte amicitia vetuste, sed fraternitate recens. Supprimit postremus titulus antiquos, nihil est quod hodie velim de præterita meminisse dileclione, quando moderna dignitatis et firmiorem facit esse caritatem et tenaciorem. si Deus vellet ut te amplecterer! sed in spiritu perficio quod non possum in corpore, et præsente Christo non amplius reipublicae præfectum veneror et osculor, sed Ecclesiæ, qui mihi filius ætate, dignitate frater, et meritis pater esL Ora pro me, ut in Domino consummatus, opus quod injunxit consummem, et in eo tandem impleam tempora quæ restant, qui tot et tanta ( v e mihi! ) his quæ non debui, implevi, sed apud DOminum misericordia. Melior esto mei.\n\nEPISTOLA II.\n\nSANCTORUM EPISCOPORUM LUPI TRICASSINI ET EUPHORONII AUGUSTODUNENSIS, AD TALASIUM EPISCOPUM ANDEGA- VENSEM.\n\nDe solemnitatibus, et de bigamis clericis, et iis qui con jugati assumuntur.","english":"Brave in ancient friendship, but new in brotherhood. The latter title suppresses the former; there is nothing today that I would wish to recall from past affection, when present dignity makes love both stronger and more tenacious. If only God would allow me to embrace you! But in spirit I accomplish what I cannot in body, and in the presence of Christ I no longer venerate and kiss the prefect of the republic, but the bishop of the Church, who are to me a son in age, a brother in dignity, and a father in merits. Pray for me, that I, perfected in the Lord, may complete the work He has enjoined, and that I may finally fulfill in it the time that remains, I who have fulfilled so many and such great things (alas for me!) with those things I ought not to have done, but with the Lord there is mercy. Be better than I.\n\nLETTER II.\n\nFrom the holy bishops Lupus of Troyes and Euphronius of Autun, to Talasius, bishop of Angers.\n\nConcerning solemnities, and concerning bigamous clerics, and those who are assumed while married.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"sense","kind":"sense","basis":"text","lemma":"Macte amicitia vetuste, sed fraternitate recens","severity":"info","text":"The opening phrase contrasts old friendship with new brotherhood, emphasizing a spiritual bond that supersedes prior secular ties.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"reipublicae praefectum","severity":"info","text":"The addressee is addressed as a former prefect of the republic, indicating a high civil office before his elevation to bishop.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"Lupus Trecensis Episcopus","severity":"info","text":"Lupus of Troyes (c. 395–c. 479) was a Gallo-Roman bishop known for his role in defending Gaul against Attila and for his correspondence with other bishops.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"Epistola II","severity":"info","text":"The passage is the second letter in the collection, addressed jointly by Lupus and Euphronius to Talasius, with a heading summarizing its topics: solemnities, bigamous clerics, and married men admitted to clergy.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"Ora pro me","severity":"info","text":"The request for prayers reflects a common epistolary trope in late antique Christian letters, emphasizing humility and mutual spiritual support.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"dileclione","severity":"caution","text":"The Latin text has 'dileclione' which is likely a scribal error for 'dilectione' (affection); the translation follows the corrected reading.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The phrase 'Macte amicitia vetuste' may be a textual corruption or archaism; the translation interprets it as 'Brave in ancient friendship'.","The identity of the addressee is not explicitly named in this passage, but the heading identifies him as Talasius of Angers."],"confidence":"high","notes":[]},{"i":4,"ref":"p4","source":"Domino sancto et in Christo cultu atque honore vcnerando beatissimo fratri Talasio episcopo, Lupus et Eupbrunius episcopi pariter positi.\n\nCommonitorium quod per subdiaconum Arcontium missum fuerat, inspeximus: ad quod sanctitati tuæ, sicut poposcisti, respondere curavimus. Vigilia natalis Domini longe alio more, quam Paschae vigilia, celebranda: quia hic nativitatis lectroncs legendae sunt, illic autem passionis. Epiphaniæ quoque soleinniias habet suum specialem cultum. Quae vigiliae vel maxime, aut perpete nocte, aut certe in matutinum vergente, curandae sunt: paschalis autem v gilia a vespere raro in matutinum usque perducitur. Deinde in vigilia Paschae diversorum librorum lectiones sunt recensendæ, quæ totae habeant aliquid de præfiguratione, aut vaticiniopassionis: antedicia autem vigilia, prout visum fuerit; inter psallendum et legenduM, sive de propbetis, sive de Novo Testamento, quod quisque voluerit, non Iegali, sed voluntaria lectione præsumet. De clericis vero bigamis, usque ad ostianos Ecclesia permittit et patitur: etquam quis sacerdotum regulam pro districtione sua assumpserit, jure custodiet. Exorcistas vero, aut subdiaconos, a secundis nuptiis penitus excludit.","english":"To the holy lord and brother most blessed, Talasius the bishop, venerated with worship and honor in Christ, Lupus and Euphronius, bishops together placed.\n\nWe have examined the memorandum that was sent through the subdeacon Arcontius; to it we have taken care to respond to your sanctity, as you requested. The vigil of the Lord's nativity is to be celebrated in a far different manner from the vigil of Easter: because here the readings of the nativity are to be read, but there those of the passion. The solemnity of the Epiphany also has its own special observance. These vigils, or at the very least, either through the whole night, or certainly toward the approach of morning, are to be observed; the paschal vigil, however, is rarely prolonged from evening until morning. Then, in the vigil of Easter, readings from various books are to be recited, which entirely contain something of the prefiguration or prophecy of the passion; in the aforementioned vigil, however, as it shall seem fit, between psalmody and reading, whether from the prophets or from the New Testament, whatever one wishes, he will presume not by a prescribed but by a voluntary reading. Concerning clerics who are bigamists, the Church permits and tolerates them up to the doorkeepers; and whatever rule a priest has assumed for himself according to his own strictness, he will lawfully observe. But it entirely excludes exorcists or subdeacons from second marriages.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"Commonitorium","severity":"info","text":"The letter opens with a formal salutation and then refers to a 'Commonitorium' (memorandum) sent by Talasius, framing the response as an official reply to a query.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"bigamis","severity":"info","text":"'Bigamis' refers to men who have married twice, a status that in early medieval canon law disqualified them from higher clerical orders but was tolerated for lower ranks like doorkeepers.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"vigilia natalis Domini","severity":"info","text":"The distinction between the vigils of Christmas and Easter reflects early medieval liturgical practice, where Christmas vigil included readings of the nativity and Easter vigil focused on passion prophecies.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"lectiones","severity":"info","text":"The reference to readings from 'prophetis' and 'Novo Testamento' during vigils implies a scriptural basis for liturgical lessons, though no specific verse is quoted.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"non legali, sed voluntaria lectione","severity":"caution","text":"The phrase 'non legali, sed voluntaria lectione' suggests a contrast between prescribed and voluntary readings, but the exact liturgical flexibility intended is ambiguous.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The identity of 'Euphronius' (Eupbrunius in Latin) is uncertain; possibly a scribal error for 'Euphronius' or a variant name.","The phrase 'antedicia autem vigilia' (the aforementioned vigil) is unclear whether it refers to Christmas or Epiphany vigil."],"confidence":"high","notes":[]},{"i":5,"ref":"p5","source":"Generationem vero filiorum ab his, quos conjugatos assumimus, melius esset, si fieri possit, arceri: quos melius esl non assumi, quam de his postea sub diversa sensuum varictate certari: cum melius sit omnes dsceptationum causas excludi, ut qui non vult in clericatu generari, non constituat in altario conjugatos. Haec pro consuetudine Ecclesiarum nostrarum, quarum una est regula, paginae bujus sermone texuimus. Si quid vero pro honore Domini potest districtionis acerescere, et si imitari non possumus, pro Domini honore laudabimus. Nam jam Ecclesiæ obsequiis aggregatos ad secundas nuptias transire non patimur: quos, postquam assumpti fuerint, etiam a primis penitus arcemus; exorcistas duntaxat, atque subdiaconos. In Augustodunensi autem Ecclesia, vel osiiarius in imo officio constitutus, si uxorem aliam acceperit. ab officio penitus abdicatur. Subdiaconos autem ad pacem inter se in sacrario oportet accedere: in altario autem, non nisi dum porrigunt pallas diacono, aut suscipiunt quod refertur; ad pacem autem nequaquam eis permissum est. Si autem illius amentiae fuerit, vel exorcista, vel subdiaconus, vel etiam, sicut supra memoratum est, ostiarius, ut secundis se nuptiis illigarit, non solum ab officio, sed etiam a communione penitus arcetur.","english":"But as for the begetting of children by those whom we take as married men, it would be better, if it could be done, to prevent it: it is better not to take them at all than afterwards to dispute about them with various conflicting opinions, since it is better to exclude all causes of debate, so that whoever does not wish to have children begotten in the clergy should not place married men at the altar. We have set forth these matters in the discourse of this letter according to the custom of our churches, which have one rule. If anything can be added in strictness for the honor of the Lord, and if we cannot imitate it, we will praise it for the Lord's honor. For we do not allow those already enrolled in the service of the Church to pass to second marriages; and after they have been admitted, we completely bar them even from first marriages—only exorcists and subdeacons, however. But in the Church of Autun, even a doorkeeper placed in the lowest office, if he takes another wife, is completely removed from office. Subdeacons, moreover, ought to approach one another for the kiss of peace in the sacristy; but at the altar, they are not permitted to do so except when they hand the corporals to the deacon or receive what is brought back; but for the kiss of peace, it is by no means allowed to them. But if anyone of that madness—whether exorcist, or subdeacon, or even, as mentioned above, doorkeeper—binds himself to a second marriage, he is completely barred not only from office but also from communion.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"sense","kind":"sense","basis":"text","lemma":"Generationem vero filiorum ab his, quos conjugatos assumimus, melius esset, si fieri possit, arceri","severity":"info","text":"The Latin expresses a preference for preventing clerical marriage entirely, but concedes practical difficulty ('si fieri possit'). The English draft captures this conditional nuance.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"exorcistas duntaxat, atque subdiaconos","severity":"info","text":"The Latin specifies that only exorcists and subdeacons are barred from first marriages after admission. 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The reference indicates a local disciplinary practice differing from the general rule stated earlier.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"Haec pro consuetudine Ecclesiarum nostrarum, quarum una est regula, paginae bujus sermone texuimus","severity":"info","text":"This sentence marks a transition from specific disciplinary rulings to a concluding statement about the unity of custom among the authors' churches.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"Si quid vero pro honore Domini potest districtionis acerescere, et si imitari non possumus, pro Domini honore laudabimus","severity":"info","text":"This concessive clause reflects a pastoral tone that influenced later canonical discussions on clerical celibacy, acknowledging the ideal while accepting lesser practice.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"ad pacem inter se in sacrario oportet accedere","severity":"caution","text":"The Latin 'ad pacem' refers to the liturgical kiss of peace. The English draft's 'approach one another for the kiss of peace' is accurate, but the restriction to the sacristy is a local custom, not universal.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The phrase 'quos melius esl non assumi' contains a possible scribal error ('esl' for 'est'), but the sense is clear.","The scope of 'primis' in 'etiam a primis penitus arcemus' is ambiguous: it could mean first marriages or first wives; the English draft takes it as first marriages."],"confidence":"high","notes":[]},{"i":6,"ref":"p6","source":"(Habes infra nonnullas Ruricii et Sidonii Rhegiensis epistolas ad Lupum Trecensem criptas.)","english":"(You have below several letters of Ruricius and Sidonius of Rhegium to Lupus of Troyes, transcribed.)","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"Habes infra nonnullas Ruricii et Sidonii Rhegiensis epistolas ad Lupum Trecensem criptas","severity":"info","text":"This sentence is a scribal or editorial note, not part of Lupus's letter. 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