This book opens a rare window onto late antique Dalmatia through an unusual convergence of sources: the funerary inscription CIL III 9527 and several letters of Pope Gregory I most likely mention the same man, Proconsul Marcellinus. Read together, these texts let you explore what Latin looked like in Dalmatia around 590–604, who still used it, and in what settings. This book also reconstructs the turbulent careers of the bishops of Salona, Natalis and Maximus, and brings Gregory the Great into focus as a skillful writer, practical church organizer, and persistent defender of ecclesiastical order.