Abandon your rash and fatal enterprise; reflect, tremble, and repent.

If you persist, we are innocent of the blood that will be spilt in the contest; may it fall on your own head!" [Footnote 33: The two epistles of Gregory II.

have been preserved in the Acta of the Nicene Council, (tom.viii.p.

651-674.) They are without a date, which is variously fixed, by Baronius in the year 726, by Muratori (Annali d'Italia, tom.vi.p.

120) in 729, and by Pagi in 730.