6 surviving letters between Cassiodorus and Gemellus, a, spanning 522 AD.
A judgment backed by precedent is solid, and there is no room for doubt where proven experience speaks in one's favor.
Those who chose our clemency deserve good things, so that we may prove through their advancement that their decision...
It is a well-known truth that the services of the faithful are not lost on us -- what is given in hard times is...
Any burden becomes tolerable when it is distributed fairly, because a shared load is certain not to crush those...
King Theodoric to Gemellus, Vir Spectabilis [Most Respectable].