The Letters of Cassiodorus / Being a Condensed Translation of the Variae Epistolae of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator

by Senator Cassiodorus

[297] 'Per ingentia ligna decurrere.' Fornerius proposes to read 'stagna.'

[298] 'Si vero aliquid modernâ praesumptione tentatum est.' (Again 'modernus.')

[299] Possibly Referendi is the same as Referendarii. See Var. [vi. 17].

[300] 'Causae sacerdotum a sacerdotibus debent terminari.'

[301] Probably a Gothic officer.

[302] See Letters [iii. 16] and [32].

[303] 'In sacratissimâ urbe.'

[304] The double 'r' seems to be the correct spelling, though the MSS. of the Variarum apparently have the single 'r.'

[305] 'Milites ad Verrucam illum—sic enim M. Cato locum editum asperumque appellat—ire jubeas' (Gell. 3. 7. 6). Verruca therefore means primarily a steep cliff, and only secondarily a wart. See White and Biddell, s.v.

[306] 'Agger sine pugna.'