[40] Mansi, iii., 631.
[41] The letter is in Theodoret, Ecclesiastical History, v., 10.
[42] Theodoret, v., 9.
[43] Ep., lii.
[44] Ep., xxii.
[45] The best collection is Ihm's Damasi Epigrammata (1895).
[46] There is a third part of this "Gelasian Decree," which assigns to the Papacy an absolute primacy derived from Peter. It is improbable that this was due to Damasus. A letter hitherto ascribed to Pope Sirianus (Ep., x. in Migne) has lately been claimed for Damasus (Babut, La plus ancienne décrétale, 1904), but there is not enough evidence to date it. It is a series of directions, better known as Canons of the Romans to the Bishops of Gaul, on the subject of clerical celibacy, fallen virgins, etc.