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cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.02
What the invaders suffered is well known -- but I choose to pass over the details, lest the spirit of our allied prince be embarrassed by another's disgrace. How highly the East regarded our court can be understood from this: the Eastern emperor freely granted peace to those who had offended him, though he had refused …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.02
Although a multitude of cares presses upon our compassionate mind and our customary diligence turns to the various parts of our kingdom, we have quickly looked to provide remedies for your welfare. In our conscience, to delay what would help people is itself a kind of injury, and we cannot consider pleasant what has be …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.02
[1] Who better to be entrusted with the rights of equity than someone honored with the priesthood — a man who, out of love for justice, judges without regard for persons and, caring for all alike, leaves no room for resentment? Recognizing that this task suits your merits, we inform you that we have sent 1,500 solidi [ …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.02
King Theodoric to Osuin, Vir Illustris [Most Illustrious], Count. It is itself a declaration of innocence to have chosen to come before us, where there is no room for violence and no cause to fear the corruption of greed. Maurentius and Paula, deprived of their father's protection, testify that they are being exposed t …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.02
King Theodoric to the Counts, Defensores [city advocates], and Town Councillors of the City of Ticinum [modern Pavia]. [The Heruli were a Germanic people who had been settled as foederati (allied troops) within the Ostrogothic kingdom.] We have ordered the Herulian petitioners to come, with God's help, to our court in …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.02
The pain may subside, yes — but it leaves behind consequences worse than itself. In a novel form of misery, the illness appears to depart while the patient never stops being ill. Even debtor chains are sometimes released from those they torment, but these bonds, once they have captured a man, never release him for the …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
Let us love the gifts God has granted there. Against this scourge of the human race, the timely defenses of these baths have been provided. What no decade of endurance can overcome, what no thousand potions can soften, is driven out there by pleasurable remedies. May God grant the desired blessing — so that I may confi …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
Pope Gelasius to Queen Hereuleva [mother of Theodoric]. I have hastened to send Peter, the Church's defensor [legal advocate], to petition my lord, your most excellent son the King, on behalf of the sustenance of the poor, with my letters. And upon his arrival I did not neglect to greet your highness as well, earnestly …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
Rejoice together, Goths and Romans alike -- here is a wonder for all to proclaim! By God's grace, our blessed queen has fulfilled what is finest in both sexes: she has given us a glorious king and defended a vast empire through the strength of her spirit. These things touch on military affairs and are reported as best …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
But water, a material sensitive to change, just as it took on foreign fire, so it easily regains its native coolness. That healing power provides another kind of aid as well. Near the head of the sparkling spring, provident nature formed a particular channel. Above this a chair is placed, perforated in the shape of an …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
King Theodoric to Suna, Vir Illustris [Most Illustrious], Count. It is not fitting that what can enhance the beauty of a city should lie unused, for it is not the part of wisdom to neglect what can be beneficial. Therefore, let Your Illustrious Sublimity see to it that the cut marble blocks, which lie scattered and neg …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
King Theodoric to Albinus, Vir Illustris [Most Illustrious], Patrician. Everyone should think about enhancing their city, but especially those whom the state has bound to it through the highest honors -- for it stands to reason that the man who has received the most must owe the most in return. In your petition you hav …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
King Theodoric to All the Inhabitants of Marseilles. We gladly preserve the ancient privileges granted to you, since we wish to bestow new benefits upon you as well. Generosity knows no fixed boundaries, and those newly restored after a long absence deserve to be welcomed with fresh kindness. We hereby confirm, by this …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
King Athalaric to Liberius, Praetorian Prefect of the Gauls. [Liberius was a distinguished Roman senator who served as Praetorian Prefect of Gaul under the Ostrogothic crown. This letter announces the death of Theodoric the Great (526) and asks Liberius to secure loyalty oaths from the Gothic and Roman populations of G …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
King Theodoric to Faustus, Praetorian Prefect. The people of Campania, devastated by the hostility of Mount Vesuvius, have poured out their tears before our clemency as suppliants, begging to be relieved of the tax burden now that the fruits of their fields have been stripped away. Our mercy rightly agrees that this sh …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
We have often learned that the saiones [royal enforcers] whom we believed we were granting out of compassion have instead become sources of the greatest complaint. Our benefit has been corrupted -- the remedy has only increased the calamity, because the malice of petitioners has diverted these agents to purposes other …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
King Theodoric to Eusebius, Vir Illustris [Most Illustrious]. After the wearisome anxieties of a turbulent city and the oppressive burden of your responsibilities, Your Greatness longs to be refreshed by the pleasures of provincial life. You report that circumstances in the present times have given you heavy cares, and …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
The blessings of our times seize our attention and, like travelers parched by a long drought, invite us to drink from the sweetest spring. What a fortunate age! Under a prince still at leisure, a mother's affection reigns, and through her everything is accomplished so that we all feel sheltered by a universal care. She …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
King Theodoric to All Provincials, Capillati [free Gothic settlers], Defensores [city advocates], and Town Councillors Residing in Siscia or the Province of Savia [the region around modern Sisak, Croatia]. The severity of royal command must never be withdrawn, so that fear may restrain the bold and the hope of future r …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
[1] When famine, wearing a grim face, struck the dwellings of Rome in a time of uncertainty, and though rare, any hunger in so great a city seemed deeply shameful, we judged it right to provide grain supplies from Spain, so that Rome under our rule might once again receive the ancient tribute of plenty. The distinguish …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
King Theodoric to Marabadus, Vir Illustris [Most Illustrious]. It befits our mercy to arrange petitioners' requests through sound administration, since the spirits of our subjects are relieved each time a mourner's complaint is settled. The respectable Liberius has come before us with a grievous petition, stating that …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
Edict of King Athalaric. [1] We hereby publish this edict for the information of all our subjects, both Goths and Romans, that they may know the principles by which our administration is guided and the standards of justice that we intend to maintain. [2] First: all persons under our rule, whatever their origin or rank, …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
King Theoderic to All Goths and Romans Residing at Dertona. [1] We are accustomed to provide for the needs of all our subjects, both Goths and Romans alike, since we hold it as a principle that both peoples should flourish under our reign. The city of Dertona, which lies at an important crossroads, requires particular …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
Let the celebrated reputation of the Coral Sea give way! Let the fame of the Indian Ocean, renowned for the whiteness of its pearls, rise up in comparison! What good are such prices to me if the spirit does not enjoy what it desires? Nothing can be more excellent than the shores of Baiae, where one can feast on the swe …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
King Athalaric to the Chief Secretary [Primiscrinius]. [The Primiscrinius was the senior secretary of the Praetorian Prefecture's staff. Baiae, on the Bay of Naples, was the most famous spa resort of the ancient world, renowned for its hot springs.] You report that, after long labors at your post, you have been so grav …