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cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.02
We grant our benefits to your grace especially if we find you administering your duties with good judgment. You will not go unrewarded if you receive foreign peoples wisely and manage the commerce of our own people with balanced fairness. Although prudence is needed everywhere, it is particularly suited to this role, s …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.02
We owe all the more to God the greater the gifts we receive beyond other mortals. What can a ruler return to God that is proportionate to the gift of empire? Yet even if our repayment can never match the gift, it pleases us to show our gratitude through reverence for the divine religion. This is why we consider it our …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.02
Variae, Appendix, Letter 8 — Pope Gelasius I to the Bishop of Nola Felix and Petrus, clergy of the church of Nola, have rebelliously and in violation of established order rushed to the court of my son the king, claiming that violence had been done to them — their clerical office having been passed over in silence — and …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.02
If ancient emperors strove to devise laws so that their subjects might enjoy delightful peace, it is far nobler to decree measures that accord with sacred rules. Let the damaging profits of our age be banished. The only thing we can truly call gain is what divine judgment does not punish. Recently, a defender of the Ro …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.02
… re everyone to uphold may be fixed in the hearts of all. Moreover, so that this imperial benefaction may endure both for the present age and for ages to come, we order that both our decrees and the Senate's resolutions be fittingly inscribed on marble tablets and placed before the atrium of the Blessed Apostle Peter [S …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.02
… uppressed their clerical status, and rushed to the public courts -- even though imperial constitutions have decreed that in disputes between such persons, whatever the Apostolic See has decided must be observed. Not only have they deceived my lord, the magnificent king [Theodoric], by seeking royal orders against their …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
King Theodoric to Antonius, Venerable Bishop of Pola [modern Pula, on the coast of Istria]. A complaint against a man who ought to be treated with reverence is inherently troubling, since when silence is not maintained toward such persons, something serious is believed to have occurred. Stephanus has come before us wit …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
It is an endorsement of one's merits to be chosen after a corrupt predecessor has been removed, since the excesses of those who came before are only corrected when an excellent successor is found. Medicine often works through opposites: when vital heat is applied, the pestilent cold retreats. Clouds themselves are swep …
cassiodorus · c. 522 · score 0.01
You will recall with me, most faithful men, that when the holy Agapitus, Pope of Rome, was being sent on a royal embassy to the Emperor of the East, he received from you — with pledges given and a formal receipt properly executed — a certain number of pounds of gold. The provident sovereign ordered it, and the urgency …