[859] 'Videre judicia diligentia.' I leave this clause untranslated, as I cannot understand it.
[860] 'In pontibus contrabium non tremere.'
[861] 'Illum sedis nostrae militem.'
[862] He was sent by Theodahad; entered Constantinople February 20, 536, and died there 21st April of the same year.
[863] 'Facto pictacio.'
[864] 'Vasa sanctorum.' One would think this must refer to the vessels used in celebrating mass; but I do not quite see how the meaning is to be got out of the words.
[865] 'Actoribus.'
[866] Baronius not unfairly argues that if the Roman See was so poor that the Church plate had to be pawned to provide for the Pope's journey to Constantinople, the wealth of the Pope cannot have largely contributed to that great increase of his influence which marked the early years of the Sixth Century.
[867] 'Armarium ipsius fortuna cunctorum est.'
[868] 'Translator esto, non conditor antiquorum gestorum.'