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It is only right to laugh at what you said about the imperial name being neither hereditary nor appropriate for a people. How is it not hereditary, since it was hereditary for our grandfather? In what way is it inappropriate for a people, since we know mentioning only a few for the sake of brevity that Roman emperors were created from the people of Hispania, Isauria, and Khazaria. And though you will not truthfully assert that these nations are more outstanding in religion or virtues than the people of the Franks, yet you do not refuse to accept them nor disdain to talk of emperors coming from them. Your beloved Fraternity moreover indicates you are surprised that we are called emperor of the Romans, not of the Franks. But you should know that if we were not emperor of the Romans, we should not be emperor of the Franks either. We derive this title and dignity from the Romans, amongst whom the first summit of glory and exaltation shone out, whose people and whose city we divinely received to govern, and whose church, the mother of all the churches of God, we received to defend and raise up. Since things are so, why do you take such effort to criticise us, because we come from the Franks and have charge of the reins of the Roman empire, since in every people anyone who fears God is acceptable to Him? For certainly the elder Theodosius and his sons Arcadius and Honorius, and Theodosius the younger, the son of Arcadius, were raised from Spaniards to the summit of the Roman empire.

No longer asking

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