[47] Photius, i. 128, who quotes Avitus, 3rd letter, and Ennodius, and Gelasius, _Ep._ xiii. [48] Photius, i. 126; Hefele, _C.G._, ii. 596. [49] Jaffe, 371, 372; Mansi, vii. 1097; vii. 1100. [50] Dum scilicet ad Apostolicam Sedem regulariter destinatur, per quam _largiente Christo omnium solidatur dignitas sacerdotum_. Quod ipsae dilectionis tuae literae Apostolorum summum petramque fidei et caelestis dispensatorem mysterii creditis sibi clavibus beatum Petrum Apostolum confitentur. [51] In compage corporis Christi consentire. [52] Jaffe, 374; Mansi, vii. 1103. [53] The "libellus synodicus," says Hefele, _C.G._, i. 70, "auch synodicon genannt, enthaelt kurze Nachrichten ueber 158 Concilien der 9 ersten Jahrhunderte, und reicht bis zum 8ten allgemeinen Concil incl. Er wurde im 16ten Jahrhundert von Andreas Darmarius aus Morea gebracht, von Pappus, einem Strasburger Theologen, gekauft, und von ihm im I. 1601 mit lateinischer Uebersetzung zuerst edirt. Spaeter ging er auch in die Conciliensammlungen ueber; namentlich liess ihn Harduin im 5ten Bande seiner Collect. Concil. p. 1491 abdruecken, waehrend Mansi ihn in seine einzelnen Theile zerlegte, und jeden derselben an der zutreffenden Stelle (bei jeder einzelnen Synode) mittheilte." [54] akephalos. [55] Words of infamous meaning. [56] Civilta, vol. iii., 1855, p. 429. Acta SS. Jan. XI. [57] Mansi, viii. 5. _Ep._ i. [58] Ad veniam luxuriae de me cognosceris ista jactare. [59] See Photius, i. 129-130. Civilta Cattolica, vol. iii., 1855, pp. 524-5. [60] Mansi, viii. 13. Rescriptum episcoporum Dardaniae ad Gelasium Papam. [61] _Ep._ iv. _ad Faustum_; Mansi, viii. 17. [62] _Ep._ xiii. _Valde mirati sumus_; Mansi, viii. 49. [63] Mansi, viii. 30-5. [64] Ne arrogantiam judices divinae rationis officium. [65] Quem cunctis sacerdotibus et Divinitas summa voluit praeeminere, et subsequens Ecclesiae generalis jugiter pietas celebravit. [66] Photius, 134; Hefele, _C.G._, ii. 597. [67] Hefele, _C.G._, ii. 597-605, has most carefully considered the text and the date of the Council of 496. I have followed him in his choice of the text of the best manuscripts, and inasmuch as the biblical canon--the same as that held in the African Church about 393--seems to have been confirmed by Pope Hormisdas somewhat later, I have not made use of it in this place. [68] _Epist._ xviii. [69] Qui enim in petra solidabuntur cum petra exaltabuntur. CHAPTER III. PETER STOOD UP. Seven days after the death of Gelasius, Anastasius, a Roman, ascended the apostolic throne, which he held from November, 496, to November, 498. We have two letters from him extant, both important. In that addressed upon his own accession, which he sent to the emperor Anastasius by the hands of Germanus, bishop of Capua, and Cresconius, bishop of Trent, on occasion of Theodorick's embassy for the purpose of obtaining the title of king, he strove to preserve the "Roman prince" from the Eutychean heresy.