igitur quia mihi es tam patrocinio quam dilectione bis dominus, pariter et quod memini probe, quo polleas igne sensuum, fonte verborum, qui viderim Modaharium, civem Gothum, haereseos Arianae iacula vibrantem quo tu spiritualium testimoniorum mucrone confoderis, servata ceterorum tam reverentia quam pace pontificum non iniuria tibi defleo, qualiter ecclesiasticas caulas istius aetatis lupus, qui peccatis pereuntium saginatur animarum, clandestino morsu necdum intellecti dentis arrodat.
So, because your position as patron and as friend makes you doubly my master, and also because I remember well the power of your glowing thoughts and flowing words (for I saw how, when Modaharius the Goth launched his darts of Arian heresy, you transfixed him with the sword of spiritual testimony)'for these reasons, without offence or slight to the other bishops, I feel justified in sadly reporting to you how the wolf that battens on the sins of perishing souls is preying on the sheep-folds of the church in this age, biting by stealth and as yet unnoticed.
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