[781] 'Ex illatione tertiâ.'
[782] The marginal note says: 'i.e. Agentium in Rebus.'
[783] As might be expected from an observer who did not understand the earth's motion in its orbit, the periods assigned to the inferior planets in this paragraph are all wrong, while those assigned to the superior planets are pretty nearly right.
| Periods according to Cassiodorus. | True Periods. | |||||||
| Saturn | 30 | years | 29 | years | 174 | days. | ||
| Jupiter | 12 | " | 11 | " | 317 | " | ||
| Mars | 1 | year | 182 | days | 1 | year | 321 | " |
| Venus | 1 | " | 91 | " | 224 | " | ||
| Mercury | 1 | " | 30 | " | 88 | " | ||
[784] 'Per illam Indictionem de Samnii provinciâ ex illatione tertiâ sine ambiguitate contrade.'
[785] 'Praefuit enim Cornibus Secretarii Praetoriani, unde ei nomen est derivatum.'
[786] 'Eo ministrante caliculum scripsimus inempti quod magnis pretiis optabatur impleri.'
[787] 'Quod egimus cohortes noverunt.' Observe the military character of the service, 'cohortes.'
[788] 'Eorum est etiam sudoribus applicandum, quod victuales expensae longe quidem positae, sed tamquam in urbe Regiâ natae [I do not quite understand this antithesis] sine querelâ Provincialium congregantur.'
[789] 'Labores, violenti magistri, solliciti paedagogi, per quos cautior quis efficitur dum incurri pericula formidantur.'