[752] 'Circa Dominos felices.'
[753] 'Ita se et illi devotos debent pie regnantibus exhibere.' Compare again Claudian's words:
'Nunquam libertas gratior exstat,
Quam sum rege pio.'
[754] 'Sic agite ut cum justitia probata quaeritur, annus vester brevis esse videatur.'
[755] 'Quando et evectiones publicas accepistis et nobis gratum sit audire de talibus.'
[756] 'Rerum Domini clementia.'
[757] Or David, according to some MSS.
[758] This is no doubt the mountain on whose skirts was fought the decisive battle between Narses and Teias in 553, now known as Monte Lettere. It is a spur of the range reaching from Sorrento to Salerno, which attains its highest elevation in Monte San Angelo (4,690 feet high). It rises opposite to Mount Vesuvius on the south-east, the ruins of Pompeii and the valley of the Sarno (formerly the Draco) lying between the two.
[759] 'Per singulos excessus sex solidorum mulctam a se noverit exigendam et fustuario posse subjacere supplicio.'
[760] This is, I believe, the expression used in some of the Australian colonies for what Cassiodorus calls commoda vestra.