AGAPETVE I  .,

pope from 535 to 536 . He was an enlightened pontiff and collaborated with Cassiodorus in founding at Rome a library of ecclesiastical authors . King Theodahad sent him on an embassy to Constantinople, where he died, after having deposed Anthimus, the monophysite bishop of that town, and ordained Menas his successor . •l,osPETUS II., pope from 946 to 955, at the time when Alberic,son of Marozia, was governing the independent republic of Rome under the title of " prince and senator of the Romans." Agapetus, a man of some force of character, did his best to put a stop to the degradation into which the papacy had fallen, the so-called " Pornocracy," which lasted from the accession of Sergius III. in 904 to the deposition of John XII. in 963 . His appeal to Otto the Great to intervene in . Rome remained without immediate effect, since Alberic's position was - too strong to be attacked, but it bore fruit after- his death .