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By Ronald Syme
This now-classic paintings seeks to put Tacitus in his social and political context. Syme not just analyzes intimately Tacitus's writings, their improvement and elegance, but in addition his political profession, utilizing his development via govt to demonstrate the method that introduced new males from the western provinces to good fortune and primacy at Rome.
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6, Cassiodorus' appointmentfonnula for the Master's post, may exaggerate its power. I03 It is usually held (perhaps wrongly) that Theoderic had pensioned off the imperial bodyguards, or domestici (cf. 6, note 4). As noted, the Master's agentes in rebus had been largely superseded by officers responsible to king and Quaestor. The Praetorian Prefect had always shared the care of the public post with the Master; in the Variae, he also appears as paymaster for the state weapon factories, formerly under the charge of the Master.
It also has indexes of scriptural and other citations (to be used with caution), a bibliography, and Halporn's appended edition of the De Anima. However, it is marred by a throng of misprints, and the index of names and things is very inadequate, being confined to the title rubrics. The only English translation published is that of 1886 by T. Hodgkin, The Letters of Cassiodorus. ' Hodgkin was a learned authority on Ostrogothic Italy, but lacked literary sympathy for Cassiodorus, and worked from Garet's inferior text.
Why do you demand the eloquence of official composition amongst all this, when I can scarcely keep up the supply of words? Even my nights are beset by complex anxieties, lest the cities should lack their food supply. This is what their inhabitants expect more than anything: their concern is not for their ears but their bellies. Hence I am forced to travel in spirit through every province, and constantly investigate my commands. It is not enough to order civil servants to do I Cassiodol'lls wrote a separate preface for books XI-XU.