Epistle XXXIX.
To Anthemius, Subdeacon
1338
.
Gregory to Anthemius, &c.
We charged thee on thy departure, and remember to
have afterwards enjoined on thee by letter, to take care of the poor,
and, if thou shouldest find any in those parts to be in want, to inform
me by letter: and thou hast been at pains to do this with regard
to very few. Now, I desire that, as soon as thou hast received
this present order, thou offer to Pateria, my father’s sister,
forty
solidi
for shoe-money for her boys, and four hundred
modii
of wheat; to the lady Palatina, the widow of Urbicus,
twenty
solidi
and three hundred
modii
of wheat; to the
lady Viviana, widow of Felix, twenty
solidi
and three hundred
modii
of wheat. And let all these eighty
solidi
be
charged together in thy accounts. But bring hither with speed the
sum of thy receipts, and be here, with the
Lord’s
help, by Easter Day.
1338
He was the
subdeacon who had charge of the patrimony in Campania, as appears from
other letters to him (see Index of Epistles).