Quibus auditis, dicebant omnes una cum ipso pontifice, virum tantae auctoritatis qui per quadraginta prope annos episcopatu fungebatur nequaquam damnari debere, sed ad integrum culpis accusationum absolutum patriam cum honore reverti.
And this being heard, the pope himself and all that were present said that a man of such great authority, who for nearly 40 years was in the office of bishop, ought by no means to be condemned, but once again, being quitted from the faults laid to his charge, to return home with honour to his country.
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