[116] This refers to the reunion of a great portion of the eastern Church, which had fallen a prey to the most manifold errors since the Council of Chalcedon.--Riffel, p. 543. [117] Savigny, _Geschichte des roemischen Rechts im Mittelalter_, 1834, i. 36. Quoted by Rump, ix. 72. [118] _Ep._ xi. 2: Sedes illa toto orbe mirabilis licet generalis mundo sit praedita. [119] _Nov._ cxxxi. c. 2: thespizomen ton hagiotaton tes presbyteras Rhomes papan proton einai panton ton hiereon.... te gnome kai orthe krisei tou ekeinou sebasmiou thronou katergethesan. _Nov._ ix. init.: Pontificatus apicem apud eam (Romam anteriorem) esse nemo est qui dubitet.--Photius, p. 156. [120] Translated from Photius, p. 156. [121] "Cesare fui e son Giustiniano, Che, per voler del primo amor ch'io sento, Dentro alle leggi trassi il troppo e il vano." --_Paradiso_, vi. 10. [122] This paragraph translated from Rump, ix. 70. [123] Rump, viii. 487. [124] Account from Rump, ix. 172-4, compressed. [125] Respondeat mens illa Sancto Spiritui serviens. [126] Mansi, viii. 808. [127] Mansi, viii. 849. [128] See Baronius, A.D. 535, sec. 40; Hefele, ii. 736-8; Rump, ix. 174-6; _Novell._ xxxix. _De Africana Ecclesia._ [129] Photius, i. 153-4: words of Hergenroether, who quotes eastern historians, who call him megaloprepesteros anakton ton proteron ... megalourgos krator. [130] Mansi, viii. 846. [131] Photius, i. 160-2; Rump, ix. 181. [132] Photius, i. 163. The words which concern the conduct of Vigilius are taken from Cardinal Hergenroether. Baronius, A.D. 538, sec. 5, gives from Anastasius the words of the empress, and the Pope's answer, and the following narrative. [133] Gregorovius, i. 372. See Liberatus, _Breviarium_, ch. xxii. [134] Liberatus, _Breviarium_. [135] Reumont, ii. 49. [136] St. Gregory, _Dialogues_, ii. 14, 18. [137] The following drawn from Reumont's narrative, ii. 50-6. [138] The narrative drawn from Reumont, ii. 56-7; Gregorovius, i. 448-9. [139] Mansi, viii. 969; Photius, i. 163. [140] Mansi, viii. 1149. [141] Mansi, ix. 35-40. [142] Narrative drawn from Photius, i. 165-6, down to "Ferrandus," p. 232, below. [143] Mansi, ix. 487-537. [144] Hefele, ii. 790. [145] Hergenroether, _K.G._, i. 344-5; Photius, i. 166. [146] Translated from Hergenroether's _K.G._, i., pp. 345-351, from p. 232, above, "at this point Justinian sought," &c., with reference also to the life of Photius. [147] Hergenroether, Photius, i. 174; Rump, _K.G._, ix. 283. [148] See Reumont, ii. 58-62; Gregorovius, i. 453-9. [149] Reumont, 60. [150] Gregorovius, 455. [151] _Ibid._, 456. [152] Reumont, 61. [153] Gregorovius, 450-2. [154] See vol. v. 281. [155] _Constitutio_, lxxxii. 667. [156] Honestatem quam illis obtenentibus credimus. [157] _Constitutio_, vi. 48.