[503] Malchus, Exc. i, 3.
[504] Marcellinus Com., an. 476; Jordanes, De Reg. Suc., etc. He seems to have made a show of resigning voluntarily; Malchus, loc. cit.
[505] Anon. Vales., 64.
[506] Procopius, De Bel. Goth., i. 1, etc.
[507] Jordanes, De Reb. Get., 57.
[508] Marcellinus Com., an. 488.
[509] Procopius, loc. cit.; Cassiodorus, Chron., etc.
[510] The only circumstantial account of this affair comes from Jn. Antioch.; Müller, Frag. Hist. Graec., v, p. 29.
[511] Anon. Valesii, 64.
[512] Procopius, loc. cit. The administration of Theodoric is fully displayed in the so-called Epistles of Cassiodorus, his quaestor, which form in reality a book of the Acts or rescripts of the Gothic King. Everything in Italy was maintained according to the Imperial system of Rome, and Theodoric differed only from the obsolete Western Emperors by the modesty of his title and the limited extent of his dominions.