[229] 'Ex quo, Deo propitio, Sonti fluenta transmisimus ubi primum Italiae nos suscepit imperium.'
[230] 'Illud enim, propitiante Deo, labores nostros asserit quod se otiosam generalitas esse cognoscit.'
[231] 'Quapropter illustris magnitudo vestra praesenti jussione commonita, patrocinium partis Prasini, quod gloriosae recordationis pater noster impendit, dignanter assumat.' This passage probably alludes to Theodoric's adoption by Zeno. But one reading is 'pater vester.'
[232] See for the office of the Sajo, [note] on [ii. 13].
[233] I presume that 'portum Lucini' is an error for the Lucrine harbour; but there is an allusion which I do not understand in the following passage: 'Simul etiam portubus junctis, qui ad illa loca antiquitus pertinebant, et nunc diversorum usurpatione suggeruntur invasi?'
[234] This is evidently the writer's father.
[235] 'Onera indictorum titulorum.'
[236] 'Tributa sunt purpurae, non lacernae.'
[237] See [i. 23], from which it appears that these two men had special jurisdiction in cases affecting Patricians.
[238] See [Letter i. 20].