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

by Senator Cassiodorus

[800]'Haec nos annuo sermone convenit loqui: quia bonarum rerum nulla satietas est.'

[801] 'Trina Illatio.'

[802] Sept. 1, 534, to Sept. 1, 535.

[803] 'Expensarum fidelem notitiam quaternis mensibus comprehensam.' As the receipts of the Trina Illatio had to be gathered in every four months, the account of Provincial expenditure covered the same period.

[804] 'Ad scrinia nostra dirigere maturabis.'

[805] 'Devotio tua' was the technical way of addressing the fortis Sajo.

[806] 'In executore illud est pessimum, si judicis relinquat arbitrium.'

[807] 'Rerum Dominus.'

[808] Revenue-officer.

[809] 'Perhaps a kind of lamprey' (White and Riddle's Latin-English Dictionary).