[761] 'Pio Principi.'
[762] Thus called by Cassiodorus; not Comum.
[763] 'Se possessores paraveredorum assiduitate suggerunt esse fatigatos.'
[764] 'Quibus indultu Regali beneficium praecipimus jugiter custodiri.' These words do not make it clear how the inhabitants were relieved by the Royal decree; but it was probably by some gift of money like that which is announced in the next letter.
[765] 'Praetoriorum luminibus decenter ornata.'
[766] So Claudian (De VI Consolata Honorii 196), 'et Addua visu caerulus.'
[767] 'Ut nomen retinens et colorem in Septentrionem obesiore alvei ventre generetur.'
[768] 'Sed ut beneficia Dominorum subtractis exactionum, incommodis augeantur, celerius relatio vestra nos instruat, quid unicuique de hac summâ relaxandum esse judicetis, ut tantum de primâ illatione faciamus suspendi quantum ad nos notitia directa vulgaverit.' The meaning of Cassiodorus seems quite clear, though it is not easy to understand how far the actual gift of money was supplemented by, or independent of, remission of land-tax.
[769] 'Exactores atque susceptores.' For the latter office, see Cod. Theod. xii. 6.
[770] This letter was probably addressed to the Princeps, the highest person in the whole Officium, as it contains the words 'unus quisque ... tuâ designatione vulgetur.'