Note 38 — Book V. Summary Review of the Preceding Books

Ep. VI. 6; Toynbee, 75; pointed by Clark, 20. Both record W. Meyer’s emendation for cursus, puníta (for Púnica, a former corrupt reading). The cursus in John of Salisbury’s Ep. 221 are followed in the translation above, page 209. The text begins as follows: “Fáma vulgánte (plan.) didicimus vos et dominum Ottonem sanctæ Romanæ Ecclesiæ diáconum càrdinálem (vel.) ad preces illustris domini nostri regis Anglórum (plan.) ex mandato dómini pápæ (plan.) in partes Aquitániæ dèscendísse (vel.) ut auctore Deo, si fieri potest, Anglicanæ Ecclesiæ debitam reddatis libertatem (not conformed) et inter dominum regem et Cantuariensem archiepiscopum pacem et concórdiam rèformétis (vel.). A magnis etiam et a venerabilibus víris audítum est (tard.) quod præfatus dominus noster rex adeo de amore véstro confídit (plan.) ut consilio vestro in omnibus obtemperáre decréverit” (tard.).