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cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.02
Formula of the Provincial Countship. [1] The count of a province is the direct representative of the king in that territory — the man who bears the weight of the entire royal administration upon his shoulders within his area. It is a position that demands the combination of many qualities: wisdom in counsel, firmness i …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.02
[1] Anduit's tearful petition moved us, but what made it more pitiable still was the man's loss of sight. A man who survives in perpetual darkness hastened to seek our aid, guided by borrowed light, so that even if he could not see his sovereign, he might at least feel the warmth of our mercy. He cries out that Gudila …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.02
King Theoderic to Servatus, Military Governor of the Raetias. [1] It befits you to show in your conduct the honor that you bear in your title, so that throughout the province over which you preside, you permit no act of violence, but compel everything to conform to justice — the source from which our power flourishes. …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.02
Formula of the Consulship. [1] In the judgment of our ancestors, the nature of the consulship is best understood from this fact: the year is named after the consul, so that all records of time derive their authority from this highest dignity. The consul gives his name to the year, just as the consular fasces give their …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.02
Formula: Concerning the Commentariensis [Prison Warden/Record Keeper]. It is a pleasure to answer the hopes of the well-deserving with reciprocal rewards, so that a man may serve with a more devoted heart once he has earned advancement. Let Heliodorus therefore enjoy the office of commentariensis. We rightly entrust to …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.02
King Theodoric to the Devoted Count Amabilis. No one should receive our commands resentfully, since they are known to advance the interests of our loyal servants. We have learned of a food shortage in the region of Gaul — the kind of situation to which the ever-ready merchant always hastens, buying at a lower price in …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
There are many more such examples, if one investigates. Everything that can encounter adversity would be quickly destroyed if creatures did not care for their own safety. Let me return my words to you, master of the prison. Allow your penal sanctuary to be innocently empty. You are tormented, indeed, that no one is bei …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
Although the very title of "judge" seems dedicated to justice, and I am commanded to walk in the footsteps of equity through the entire orbit of the year, on these days I rightly turn aside into the dwelling-place of mercy — so that through the path of forgiveness I may reach the Redeemer of all. From this virtue I gat …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
Love your blade, for a moment, when it is gleaming rather than bloodied. Let a happier rust receive your chains, wet with tears. Lock up instead the instrument that used to lock men in. Let the courtrooms of deadly sentences fall silent under a better fortune. This is how you truly preserve the name of "guardian" — wit …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
King Theodoric to Luduin [Clovis], King of the Franks. The divine will has ordained that the bonds of kinship among kings should strengthen, so that through their peaceable dispositions the longed-for tranquility of peoples may be achieved. This bond is sacred — it must not be violated by any upheaval. For what hostage …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
But you who are released — you who must no longer be deceived by ambition — leave your crimes behind with your chains, absolved by the grace of these holy days. Live honestly now, you who have learned what it means to die while still alive. Recognize how beneficial a good life is: the other way brought you a hideous pr …