The Letters of Cassiodorus
Bina and Terna to be collected under his superintendence, vii. 21;
Ambrosius held office of, viii. 13;
Opilio, father and son, held office of, viii. 16;
Cyprian held office of, v. 40.
COMES SECUNDI ORDINIS, FORMULA OF, vii. 26.
COMES SYRACUSANUS, FORMULA OF, vi. 22 (_see_ also ix. 11, 14).
Comitatus of the King,
litigants summoned to, i. 7; iv. 44, 45; v. 12, 32;
presence of in Liguria requires extraordinary supply of provisions,
ii. 20;
the place 'ubi et innocentia perfugium et calumniatores jus possunt
invenire districtum,' iv. 9;
meant to be a blessing to his subjects, iv. 40;
recourse to it by a distant suitor not compulsory, iv. 40;
journey of the Heruli to, iv. 45;
always ready for redress of grievances, v. 15;
Nimfadius journeying to, viii. 32.
Comites of Pavia, iv. 45.
COMITIACUS (officer of the law courts),
FORMULA BESTOWING HONORARY RANK ON, vi. 13;
Stabularius, Comitiacus, v. 6;
Florentinus, Vir Devotus, Comitiacus, viii. 7.
Commentariensis (or Commentarisius), officer in Court of Praetorian
Praefect, nature of his functions, 104-106;
Cheliodorus appointed, xi. 28.
Commonitorium, iii. 19; vii. 22.
Como, City and Lake of, the praises of, xi. 14.
COMPETITORES, FORMULA CONCERNING, vii. 44.
Compulsor, officer employed to compel payment of taxes, xii. 8.
Compurgation, evidences of a practice similar to, ix. 14 (p. 397).
Computus Paschalis, tract on determination of Easter, attributed to
Cassiodorus, 10, 11.
Comum (_Como_), theft of brazen statue at, ii. 35, 36.
Concordia (_Caorle_), contributions of wine and wheat from, remitted,
xii. 26.
Conductores, farmers of royal domain, losses of, in Apulia, i. 16;
in Spain, v. 39.
Confiscated property, manner of asserting claims of Crown to, iv. 32.
Consiliarius (Assessor), nature of the office, 12, 13;
Cassiodorus appointed to office of, 12.
Constantinople, character of diplomatists of, ii. 6;
Cyprian's mission to, v. 41.
Constantius, Bishop, his petition as to spoliation of the Church, iv.
20.
Constantius, a farmer, unjustly reduced to slavery by Tanca, viii. 28.
CONSULARIS, FORMULA OF, vi. 20;
of Liguria, xii. 8.
CONSULSHIP, FORMULA OF, vi. 1;
of Cassiodorus (514), 25-26;
of reigning Emperors, 28 _n_;
of Felix, ii. 1, 2, 3;
of Maximus, not to prevent his filling lower offices afterwards,
x. 12.
Consuls, Eastern and Western, order of precedence of, in the Fasti,
122.
Consumption cured by milk of the cows on Mons Lactarius, xi. 10.
Corn, restraints on exportation of, i. 34;
traffic in, for Southern Italy, regulated, ii. 26;
traffic in, from western coast of Italy to Gaul, iv. 5, 7;
traffic in, from Spain to Rome, v. 35;
forestalling and regrating of, prohibited, ix. 5;
sale of, at reduced price, in Liguria and Venetia, x. 27;
distribution of, in Rome, xi. 5;
sale of, at reduced price, to citizens of Milan, xii. 27.
Cornicularius,
his position on the official staff of the Praetorian Praefect, 97;
nature of his functions, 97-102;
must be chosen from the Augustales, 110;
Antianus vacates office of, xi. 18, 19;
retired, to be pensioned, xi. 36.
Corrector (lowest grade of Provincial Governor) of Bruttii and
Lucania, iii. 8.
Cosilinum (? _Padula_), a city of Lucania, viii. 33.
Costula, a free Goth, complains that servile tasks are imposed on him
by Guduim, v. 30.
Cubiculum = royal treasury, v. 44;
'libra cubiculi nostri' = the standard pound, v. 39.
Cunigast (or Conigast), Vir Illustris,
evil character of, according to Boethius, 376;
ordered to administer justice between Tanca and his poorer
neighbours, viii. 28.
Cura Epistolarum, officer charged with copying letters on fiscal
matters, 109.
Cura Epistolarum Canonicarum, Constantinian appointed, xi. 23.
CURA PALATII, FORMULA OF, vii. 5.
CURATOR OF A CITY, FORMULA OF, vii. 12.
Curia, called by Antiquity Minor Senatus, ii. 18; vi. 3; ix. 2.
CURIALIS, FORMULA DIRECTING SALE OF PROPERTY OF, vii. 47.
Curiales, condition of, ii. 18;
conflict between Curial and Ecclesiastical obligations, ii. 18;
have to make good the Senators' deficiencies in payment of taxes,
ii. 24;
'sordid burdens' = Curial obligations (?), ii. 28;
of Aestunae, iii. 9;
penalty on Jovinus for killing a fellow-curial, iii. 47;
might be punished with stripes by Praetorian Praefect, vi. 3;
oppression of, forbidden by Edictum Athalarici, ix. 2;
of Adriana, i. 19;
of Catana, iii. 49; of Forum Livii, iv. 8;
of Velia (?), iv. 11;
of Ticinum, iv. 45;
of Suavia, iv. 49; v. 14;
of Neapolis, vi. 24;
of Liguria, xii. 8;
FORMULA ADDRESSED TO, vii. 27;
family of, permitted to descend from the Curia, ix. 4.
Currency, wickedness of depreciating, i. 10; vii. 32.
CURRITANA INSULA ET CELSINA (two of the Lipari Islands), FORMULA FOR
THE COMES OF, vii. 16.
Cursus Publicus, Postal-service, 37;
transferred from Praetorian Praefect to Magister Officiorum, 99, 302;
vi. 3, 6;
under Regerendarius, 109;
letter as to, i. 29;
abuses of, to be reformed by the Sajo Gudisal, iv. 47;
by Sajo Mannila, v. 5;
abuses of, in Spain, v. 39;
citizens of Scyllacium not to be harassed by, xii. 15.
Cyprian, Vir Illustris, Count of the Sacred Largesses (524-525),
his character and appointment to above office, v. 40, 41; viii. 16;
his services as Referendarius, v. 40;
his mission to Constantinople, v. 40;
his accusation of Albinus and Boethius, 289, 291, 363, 369;
raised to honour of Patricate, viii. 21, 22.
D.
Dahn, Felix (author of 'Koenige der Germanen'), quoted, 119, 152, 155,
165, 177, 180, 182, 183, 184, 197, 198, 202, 204, 206, 207, 209, 216,
221, 236, 240, 242, 248, 269, 282, 287, 320, 341, 350 _n_, 353 _n_,
356, 361, 370 _n_, 372, 375, 401, 403, 435, 437 _n_.
Daila, a free Goth, complains that servile tasks are imposed on him by
Duke Guduim, v. 30.
Dalmatia,
Simeon appointed to collect arrears of taxation from, iii. 25;
iron mining in, iii. 25;
Epiphanius Consularis of, v. 24;
address of Athalario to Goths settled in, viii. 4;
Arator sent on an embassy from Provincials of, to Theodoric, viii. 12;
Osuin appointed Governor of, ix. 8, 9.
Danube, River, 'made a Roman stream by Amalasuentha, xi. 1.
Datius, Bishop of Milan, made steward of the King's bounty to the
citizens, xii. 27. (For his history, _see_ 522.)
Davus receives sick-leave to visit Mons Lactarius, xi. 10.
Death, the inconvenience of, 'comperimus dromonarios viginti et unum
de constituto numero _mortis incommodo_ fuisse subtractos,' iv. 15.
Decennonium, Marsh of, drained by Decius, ii. 32, 33.
Decennovial Canal mentioned by Procopius, 188.
Decii, Lay of the, recited at school, iii. 6;
family of Liberius and Paulinas descended from, ix. 22, 23.
Decius, Caecina Maurus Basilius, Illustris, ex-Praefect of the City,
and ex-Praetorian Praefect,
undertakes to drain the Marsh of Decennonium, ii. 32, 33;
one of the Quinque-viri appointed to try Basilius and Praetextatus
(?), iv. 22, 23.
Decoratus (Vir Devotus), brother of Honoratus, appointed Quaestor,
his character and early death, v. 3, 4;
conflicting testimony of Boethius and Ennodius as to, 267 _n_;
instructions to, as to arrears of Siliquaticum, v. 31.
Decuriae, guilds of copying-clerks, &c., connected with administration
of justice, 277.
Defensor, Gothic soldier of a Roman noble, iv. 27, 28.
DEFENSOR OF A CITY, FORMULA OF, vii. 11.
Defensores of Church of Milan, ii. 30;
of Aestunae, iii. 9;
of the sacrosanct Roman Church, iii. 45;
of Catena, iii. 49;
of Ticinum, iv. 45;
of Suavia, iv. 49; v. 14.
'Defloratis prosperitatibus,' meaning of this phrase, used by
Cassiodorus of his Gothic History, 137 _n_.
Degeniatus = (apparently) stripped of official rank, xii. 10.
Delegatoria, warrant for increased rations consequent on promotion,
xi. 33, 35.
Denarius, puzzling passage as to relation of to solidus, i. 10.
Deputati, fifteen shorthand writers of the highest class, appropriated
to the Emperor's service, 111; xi. 30.
Dertona (_Tortona_), fortification of, i. 17;
corn warehouse at, to be opened, x. 27; xii. 27.
Diceneus, philosopher-king of Dacia, perhaps Cassiodorus' ideal of a
king, 32.
Dionysius 'Exiguus,' author of our present chronology, a colleague of
Cassiodorus in his literary enterprises, 64.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chief authority on the Roman
chariot-races, 230.
Discussores, assessors of taxes, iv. 38.
Documents not to be tampered with by the Scribe, xii. 21.
Domestici, life-guardsmen attached to the Provincial Governors, to
receive larger pay, ix. 13.
Domitian, office of Master of the Horse abolished by, 99.
Domitius, Spectabilis, has received a concession for drainage of land
which he is too parsimonious to take full advantage of, ii. 21;
complains of seizure of his estates by Theodahad, iv. 39.
Domus Palmata, near the Forum, iv. 30.
Donativum, _see_ Largesse.
Drainage concession to Spes and Domitius, ii. 21.
Drill, need of, exemplified, i. 40.
Dromonarii, rowers in express boats, ii. 31;
twenty-one dead, iv. 15.
Dromones, express boats, one thousand to be built, v. 16.
Druentia (_Durance_), River,
frontier of Ostrogothic and Burgundian Monarchies, 218;
provisions for garrisons upon, iii. 41.
Dux, a military officer of the rank of Spectabilis, his relation to
the Comes, 90 _n_.
DUX RAETIARUM, FORMULA OF, vii. 4.
E.
Eastern Empire, Amalasuentha's relations with, xi. 1.
Ecclesiastical privileges and immunities, i. 9, 26; ii. 29, 30;
iii. 14, 37, 45; iv. 17, 20; viii. 24; ix. 15, 16; x. 26, 34;
xii. 13, 20;
conflict between Ecclesiastical and Curial obligations, ii. 18.
Ecdicius, sons of, allowed to leave Rome to bury their father, ii. 22.
Edictum Athalarici, ix. 2, 18, 19, 20.
Edictum Theodorici,
published by Nivellius, from a MS. belonging to Pithou, 116;
punishment for adulterers according to, 283, 403;
permission to parents to sell their children, 382 _n_.
Egregii, fifth rank in Imperial service, 92;
not mentioned by Cassiodorus, 92.
Elephant, natural history of the, x. 30;
brazen images of, in Via Sacra, x. 30.
Eloquence the special product of Rome--'Aliae regiones vina, balsama
et olentia thura transmittant: Roma tradit eloquium, quo suavius nil
sit auditum,' x. 7.
Endive of Bruttii has not the bitter fibres spoken of by Virgil, xii.
14.
Ennodius, Magnus Felix, Bishop of Ticinum (died 516),
information given by, as to Boethius, 79 _n_;
information as to Alamannic refugees, 195;
his testimony to character of Decoratus, 267 _n_;
addressed his 'Paraenesis' to Ambrosius, 358.
Epiphanius employed by Cassiodorus to assist him in the compilation of
'Historia Tripartita,' 61.
Eufrasius the Acolyte sold a house at Rome to Pope Simplicius, iii.
45.
Eugenius, Vir Illustris,
receives the dignity of Master of the Offices, i. 12, 13;
possibly alluded to, viii. 19 (_see_ note).
Euric, King of the Visigoths (466-485), father of Alaric II, taxation
in his time, v. 39.
Eustorgius, Bishop of Milan, his petition for protection to Milanese
Church granted, ii. 29.
Eutharic, husband of Amalasuentha, Consulship of (519), 27, 28;
adopted as son in arms by Justin, viii. 1.
Evans, Arthur J., on the topography of Squillace, 9, 68-72.
Exceptores, shorthand writers, 104, 110, 111; xi. 25;
charged a fee for the bad paper which they supplied to suitors,
483 _n_.
Exormiston, a kind of lamprey (?), xii. 4, 14.
Expeditio, derivation of, i. 17.
F.
Famine, provisions for relief of, x. 27;
unusual appearances foreboding the famine of 538, xii. 25;