Our transgressions, by which (the) adversaries rule, wipe away, O Lord, and in your compassion everywhere defend us.
"Delicta nostra, domine, quibus adversa dominantur, absterge, et tua nos ubique miseratione custodi."
Opening 8th-century collect (Gelasian etc.) for the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost later dropped from the Roman missal in favor of its contemporary, "Largire, quaesumus, domine, fidelibus tuis indulgentiam placatus et pacem", itself (I think) abandoned after Vatican II. According to Corpus orationum no. 1062, the last occurrence of "Delicta nostra, domine" was in the mid-11th-century Udalricianus.
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