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fVom each other by the hostile opposition of se-venty years. In that schism the Romans hadtasted of freedom, and the popes of sovereignty;their submission would have exposed them tothe revenge of a jealous tyrant; and the revolu-tion of Italy had betrayed the impotence, aswell as the tyranny, of the Byzantine court.The Greek emperors had restored the images,but they had not restored the Calabrian estates'*and the Illyrian diocese/which the Iconoclastshad torn away from the successors of St. Peter;and Pope Adrian threatens them with a sen-tence of excommunication unless they speedilyabjure this practical heresy . 5 The Greeks werenow orthodox, but their religion might be taint-ed by the breath of the reigning monarch: theFranks were contumacious; but a discerningeye might discern their approaching conversion

* Theophanes (p. 344) specifics those of Sicily and Calabria, whichyielded an annual rent of three talents and a half of gold (perhaps7,0001. sterling). Liutprand more pompously enumerates the patrimo-nies of the Homan church in Greece, Judea, Persia, Mesopotamia,Babylonia, Egypt, ami Liby'', which were detained by the injustice ofthe Greek emperor (Legal, ad Nicephoruni, in Script. Rerura Ilalica-riim, torn, ii, pars i, p. 481).

r The great diocess of the eastern lllyrictim, with Apulia, Calabria,and Sicily, (Tbomassin, Discipline de l’Eglise, tom. i, p. 146) by theconfession of the Greeks, the patriarch of Constantinople had detachedfrom Rome to the metropolitans of Thessalonica, Athens, Corinth, Ni-copolis, and Patrae (Luc. Holsten. Geograph Sacra, p. 22) ; and hisspiritual conquests extended to Naples and Amalphi (Giannone, IsUirfaCivile di Napoli, tom. i, p. 517-524. Pagi, A. D. 730, No. 11).

# In hoc oteuditur, quia ex uno capitulo ab errore reversis, in aliisduobus, in eodem (was it the same?) permaneant erorre . . . . de dio-cesi S. R. E. seu de patrimoniis iterum increpantes commonemus, ut siea restituere noluerit hereticum eum pro hojusmodi errere persevautiAdecernennis, (Epist. Adrian. Paps ad Carolum Magnum, in Concil.tom. viii, p. 159S) \ to which he adds a reason, must directly oppositeto his conduct, that he preferred the salvation of souls and rule offaith to the goods of this transitory world

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