Epistolae

Governed by translation-style.md Pattern 7, P1 and P2. PL 20, cols 627D–636A. The stint's own record stays beside this file: cruces-0000.md (standing decisions, Greek–Latin differences, the note layer).

Merge (2026-09-24)

• Foot notes: 14, all placed and read at the plate (three had been unplaced). Each stands as [cn:] in the Latin with a translated [nt:] twin in the English. The sweep's texts were corrected at the plate; the Greek in two notes, which had been transliterated, is now in Greek letters. Coverage full.
• TEI patches — 4 applied: INOCENTII → INNOCENTII, and three places where the TEI has a Greek ; (question mark) for the plate's ·, which had turned statements into questions.
• Two English texts per letter. Migne prints each letter twice (Greek, then Latin, each with its own column anchors); each English block is translated from its own source, Ep. III from the Latin alone. A single text per letter would break anchor parity.

Blind read (R7; cruces withheld)

• Applied: the Ep. II head Ut se et Eudoxiam … liberet: the pope frees him (Arcadius) and Eudoxia · Ep. III nequidquam [Forte nil quidquam]: "not anything", reading ne quidquam, because "in vain" left the clause with the opposite polarity and Migne's own bracket supports the split · Greek οὔτε οὐ δυνήσεται: the pleonastic οὐ is not carried, since an English double negative would cancel · ἀρχιερεύς: "high priest", not "archpriest" (an archpriest is a lower, different office; this supersedes the register line in cruces-0000.md) · the anchor [0630B] moved to where the Latin sets it.
• Rejected: 0630C cum istud … non fugisset: the plate (p. 320) prints cum, and the sentence construes with an elided object, so "him" is the Latin's ellipsis, not our repair.
• Not marked: the printed observatoni in a Latin note (logged in cruces-0000.md as the plate's).
• Greek–Latin differences the English keeps apart: none was missed by the stint's list.

Every page in range was opened at the plate once (raw/scans/pl020/pl020.pdf, 300 dpi full width, 600 dpi on p. 320; corners read first: 319 = 627/628, 320 = 629/630, 321 = 631/632, 322 = 633/634, 323 = 635/636, 324 = 637/638). Latin and Greek collated and every foot note read in the same visit. p. 324 carries no 7091 text. Note edits are listed in data/briefs/7091-NOTE-EDITS.md; TEI patches in data/briefs/7089-7091-PENDING-TEI-PATCHES.md.

Standing decisions

• How P1 is applied on this page structure. The chunks carry, for Epp. I, II and IV, Migne's Latin (Coustant's version) and then Migne's Greek as two separate blocks, each with its own column anchors. The English follows 7090's settled practice: the Greek block is translated from the Greek (this is the letter as composed; the Latin is not consulted for its wording), and the Latin block, which faces its own Latin on the page, renders that Latin. Where the two say different things, the Greek English says what the Greek says and the difference is listed below. A single English per letter was not possible without breaking anchor parity and the word ratio (the verifier counts the Greek). Ep. III, which survives only in Latin, is from the Latin. No [lat:] (a PG device; the 7090 stints fired none).
• Coustant's lettered notes: Latin [cn: a | …], English [nt: …] only (correction (a) of the launch message; verifier check 9a).
• Greek register: ἀρχιερεύς → "archpriest" (the Latin column has archiepiscopus/pontifex: kept apart, since the Greek word is not "archbishop"). βασιλεῦ → "O king" (Latin imperator → "O emperor"). δίπτυχα → "diptychs"; Latin sacrae tabulae → "sacred tablets".
• Pattern 17: Arcadius alone → thou (Ep. I §1; te/σύ). Arcadius and Eudoxia together → you (vestrarum, ὑμετέρων, ὑμῖν). Innocent addressed by Arcadius: Latin tuam → thy; Greek τὴν ὑμετέραν πρᾳότητα is PLURAL → "your gentleness", while the same letter's σῆς and λύσῃς → thy/thou (the Greek mixes the honorific plural with the singular; the English keeps both as printed). Ep. IV (vestrum, ὑμῶν) → you.
• Migne's brackets kept and rendered: [decerno] → [I decree] (Coustant's supplement), [ Forte nil quidquam] → [ Perhaps nil quidquam] (7090 precedent).
• EPISTOLA → EPISTLE; the Greek heads are set as the Latin chunk sets them ( … line).

Plate readings that differ from our TEI (patches filed)

• 0629 (Ep. I head) TEI INOCENTII — plate INNOCENTII. English "INNOCENT".
• 0632C TEI ὠφελῆσαι; — plate ὠφελῆσαι·. The TEI's Greek question mark would turn the clause into a question; the plate's is a statement and the English is one.
• 0632C TEI διπτύχοις; — plate διπτύχοις·. Statement.
• 0634A TEI κολάζουσιν; — plate κολάζουσιν·. Statement.

Cruces (Latin)

• 0628D–0629 (Monitum §2) factorumque Graecorum testimoniis: plate reads factorumque (checked at 300 dpi). Rendered "and of the Greek acts". The sense wants fastorumque, "the Greek Fasti" (the consular chronicle), which does record Eudoxia's death; not marked (a real word).
• 0629A Ad haec, nulla: the plate may print a semicolon after haec; the type is too worn to say. TEI followed; no patch.
• 0630B (Monitum §3) ut eum ne salutare quidem: read at 600 dpi; eum (TEI) stands.
• 0633B (Ep. III) que in legatos: the plate prints que (e for æ). A spelling, not a defect (Pattern 9); rendered "which".
• 0633B (Ep. III) nequidquam [ Forte nil quidquam] eorum … sciente me factum est: rendered literally, "in vain … of the things … was done with my knowledge"; the sentence does not construe with nequidquam, and Migne's own bracket gives the reading that does ("nothing at all … was done with my knowledge"). No [cj:]: the edition already glosses it (Pattern 18, the 8715 decline class).
• 0634B (Ep. III) ut quanta maxima celeritate, comprehendi jussimus: the ut has no verb of its own; rendered "that with the greatest possible speed, we have ordered to be seized". Literal.
• Note a, p. 320 (Ep. I head) prints observatoni (for observationi) and inrasit (the sense wants invasit, "invaded"; the Greek beside it, ἔξω αἰτίας ἐποίει, is as printed and obscure). The English note renders "observation" and carries inrasit untranslated.

Latin–Greek differences (P1; the English of the Greek follows the Greek)

Ep. I

• §1 Latin persecutionem … adversus Deum et Ecclesiam ejus; Greek κατὰ τῆς τοῦ Θεοῦ Ἐκκλησίας καὶ τῶν ἱερέων αὐτοῦ, "against the Church of God and his priests".
• §1 Latin re non judicata; Greek ἀκρίτως, "without judgment". Latin Doctorem totius orbis; Greek τῆς οἰκουμένης διδάσκαλον.
• §1 Latin qui … destituti sint, famem jam pati coguntur; Greek στερηθέντων καὶ λιμωξάντων, "deprived … and have hungered", no "compelled".
• §1 Latin persuasione unius mulieris, quae hoc flagitium admitti permisit; Greek πειθηνίας μιᾶς γυναικὸς … τοῦτο γενέσθαι τὸ δραματούργημα: πειθηνία is "compliance, obedience", and the Greek calls the deed a "drama" (δραματούργημα), not an "outrage".
• §1 Latin non ita multo post; Greek οὐ μετὰ πολλὰς ταύτας ἡμέρας, "not many days after these".
• §1 Latin imposturae novacula; Greek τῷ ξυρῷ τῆς πλάνης, "the razor of deceit/error".
• §1 The Latin cites Judges XVI, 19 [n:]; the Greek has no reference.
• §2 Latin segrego; Greek ἀφορίζω, "excommunicate" (the technical verb). Latin ab ea hora, qua vinculum … notum vobis fuerit; Greek ἀφ' ἧς ὥρας ἀναγνῶτέ μου τὸν παρόντα δέσμον, "from the hour at which you read this present bond of mine". Latin dignitate sua excidisse [decerno]; Greek ὑπὸ καθαίρεσιν εἶναι, "to be under deposition" (no verb of decreeing: the infinitive hangs on ἀφορίζω, and the English leaves it hanging).
• §2 Greek οὔτε οὐ δυνήσεται ἀξίωμα βιωτικόν τινα ὠφελῆσαι: a compound negative followed by a simple one. Both are carried (7a): "nor will worldly rank not be able to help anyone". The sense, and the Latin (nec quemquam … adjuvari posse), is that no rank will help; the second οὐ is a late-Greek pleonasm, but it is printed and the English does not drop it.
• §2 Latin animorum occulta erumpent et exhibebuntur ante conspectum omnium; Greek ἐκείνων δὲ τὰ ἐντὸς ἐκχυθήσονται πρὸς ὑπόδειγμα πάντων, "the inward parts of those shall be poured out for an example to all": the Greek is bodily (the bowels gushing out, as of Judas in Acts 1:18) where the Latin is moral.
• §3 Latin quem … in sedem episcopalem intrusistis; Greek ὃν εἰσενήγετε, "whom you brought in".
• §3 Latin Theophilum autem non modo dejectum e sede sua, sed etiam excommunicatione et anathemate multatum … alienum declaramus; Greek Προστιθέμεθα δὲ τῇ καθαιρέσει Θεοφίλου ἀφορισμὸν καὶ ἀναθεματισμὸν καὶ τελείαν ἀλλοτρίωσιν τοῦ χριστιανισμοῦ, "we add to the deposition of Theophilus excommunication, anathematization and complete estrangement from Christianity".
• §3 Latin episcopatum quodam adulterio polluit; Greek ὡς μοιχεύσας τὴν ἐπισκοπήν, "as having committed adultery upon the episcopate". Latin qui consulto … communicarunt; Greek προθέσει (note d: the word is lacking in Glycas).

Ep. II

• Latin ut mansuetudinem tuam certam redderem; Greek πληροφορῶν τὴν ὑμετέραν πρᾳότητα (plural, see Pattern 17 above).
• Latin Cum enim eorum communione sim usus, nihil causae erat cur eos affligerem, "since I have used their communion"; Greek Εἰ γὰρ ἤμην συμμέτοχος αὐτῶν, εἰς τοῦτο οὐκ εἶχον τούτους κακῶσαι, "for if I had been a sharer with them, I would not for this have had cause to harm them": a conditional where the Latin is causal, and "sharer" (συμμέτοχος) where the Latin has "communion". Coustant's note c argues against the Latin's claim; it does not quite fit the Greek.
• Latin ab ea … poenas exegisse; Greek ἀνταπέδωκα, "I have requited".
• Latin ac ne multipliciter punias; Greek μὴ ἐκδικήσῃς πολλαχῶς, "not to avenge manifoldly".
• Nahum: Latin Nec enim ipse Dominus bis ob idem delictum percutit (present); Greek Οὐ γὰρ πατάξει Κύριος δὶς ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτό (future, "will not strike"), close to the LXX of Nah 1:9.

Ep. IV

• Latin ad symbola dominica confirmatis animis accedite, "with strengthened minds"; Greek ἐν τοῖς δεσποτικοῖς συμβόλοις προσέλθετε ἐῤῥωμένοι, "approach the Master's symbols in good strength" (no "minds"; ἐῤῥωμένοι is also the letter-closing "farewell" word, and may be heard so).