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

by Senator Cassiodorus

[771] 'Juxta matriculae seriem.'

[772] 'Inter Tribunos et Notarios ad adorandos aspectus properet Principales.'

[773] 'Qui Praetorianis fascibus inculpabiliter noscitur obsecutus.'

[774] 'Quem matriculae series fecit accedere.'

[775] I am unable to suggest any explanation of this title.

[776] I have not found any explanation of this title, which is apparently unknown to the Notitia, to Lydus, and to the Theodosian Code.

[777] Note the corrupt form of the name Heliodorus.

[778] We get this sense of Delegatio in Cod. Theod. vii. 4. 35: 'Annonas omnes, quae universis officiis atque Sacri Palatii Ministeriis et Sacris Scriniis ceterisque cunctarum adminiculis dignitatum adsolent delegari.'

[779] In this letter occurs a sentence of tantalising obscurity: 'Sola nos Alpha complectitur ubi ea littera non timetur.'

[780] It is not clear to whom the letter is addressed.