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

by Senator Cassiodorus

[464] 'Nostrum est merentibus tempus augere.' The limit of one year might therefore be exceeded by favour of the Sovereign.

[465] 'Adhibito sibi prudente Romano.'

[466] 'Aequabili ratione.'

[467] 'Qui leges moderatâ voluntate dilexerit.' To translate this literally might give a wrong idea, because with us 'to love the law' means to be litigious.

[468] 'Non amamus aliquid incivile.'

[469] 'Violentos nostra pietas execratur.'

[470] 'Vos autem, Romani, magno studio Gothos diligere debetis, qui et in pace numerosos vobis populos faciunt, et universam Rempublicam per bella defendunt.'

[471] Raetia, from rete, a net.

[472] 'Camerarum rotator.'

[473] 'Trajani Forum vel sub assiduitate videre miraculum est.'