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

by Senator Cassiodorus

[692] £1,200.

[693] 'Limosae podagrae subitâ inundatione complutus.'

[694] The nature-heated springs of Bormio are still resorted to; and some pedestrian travellers, who have crossed the Stelvio from Trafoi, have a grateful remembrance of their soothing waters.

[695] I have not found any other mention of these brazen elephants. Nardini (Roma Antica i. 295) cites this passage, and illustrates it by quotations from Suetonius, Pliny, and the Historia Augusta, showing that it was the custom to erect to Emperors and Empresses statues of elephants drawing triumphal chariots.

[696] Cassiodorus calls it 'promuscis.'

[697] 'A quâ transportaneorum (?) nefanda passio nomen accepit.'

[698] Hist. Nat. xxviii. 8.

[699] Spelt 'Vitigis' by Cassiodorus.

[700] 'Parentes nostros Gothos.'

[701] 'Ut de ejus fama laboraret quamvis de propria virtute praesumeret.' I have translated as if 'laboraret' and 'praesumeret' were in the plural, and even so, find it difficult to get a satisfactory meaning out of these words.