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

by Senator Cassiodorus

[790] 'Ex canone provinciae Campaniae tertiae illationis tot solidos solenniter te dare censemus.'

[791] Tax-collector.

[792] Lydus (De Magistratibus iii. 14) makes a similar remark, but says that in his time the copying clerks (Exceptarii, or Exceptores) supplied disgracefully bad paper made of grass, and charged a fee for doing so.

[793] Sept. 1, 534. The reading 'de tertiae decimae Indictionis rationibus' seems required by the sense, instead of 'tertiam de decimae Indictionis rationibus.' It is quite clear that Cassiodorus was not Praetorian Praefect at the tenth Indiction.

[794] 'Ambos titulos.'

[795] This sum seems ridiculously small for the Province of Bruttii. Can it be the sum assessed on each district?

[796] 'Indulgentia.'

[797] 'Scarus.'

[798] 'Per milites suos judex intelligitur.'

[799] 'Possessor mihi publicas pecunias libens inferat: ego illi in conventus justitiae tributa persolvam.'