Justin Augustus to Pope Hormisdas,

It is well known how earnestly we have long strived to bring unity to the most holy Churches. At the very beginning of our reign, we deemed it right to encourage your holiness to send envoys, so that through their intervention, some remedy might be found for these matters. Before those who were appointed arrived, we made all necessary preparations so that the matters to be settled in this flourishing city could be more easily resolved.

However, because prayers have been submitted to our authority from various Eastern provinces, setting forth certain issues regarding the Catholic faith and expressing their understanding, which they attest to be established concerning the indivisible Trinity and which they firmly show themselves willing to accept, Dioscorus asserted that some of these were inserted in an unsuitable order. For this reason, we have decided that it is fitting to reveal to you what we have learned. Therefore, shortly, someone will be sent by us to make your blessedness more aware of everything and to present to you the petitions that have been submitted to us, and to relay your holy response, so that the improper doubts may finally be removed.

Confident in our decision, we earnestly request that you deign, with your diligent prayers, to appease the supreme Divinity on our behalf. Given on the fourteenth day before the Calends of February, at Constantinople, in the consulship of Vitalianus and Rusticus (year of our Lord 520).