Cassiodorus→Caelianus and Agapitus, Patricians|c. 522 AD|Cassiodorus|AI-assisted
imperial politics
King Theoderic to Agapitus, vir illustris, prefect of the City.
[1] The judgment of our Serenity, once pronounced, does not know how to waver: nor does it alter by the stealthy intrusion of any opportunity what it has established by provident arrangement. For we remember that some time ago we issued instructions to the patricians Albinus and Avienus, that they should choose the pantomime of the Green faction who was the more outstandingly suited to the spectacles: and they disclosed to us by their report that this had been done. [2] And therefore now, by our present authority, we decree that to the man who shall have been established as chosen by the aforesaid magnificent men, you are to grant the customary monthly allowance of the Green faction without diminution, so that what our foresight established for the sake of removing confusion may not become an occasion of sedition, but of peace.
XXXIII. AGAPITO V. I. P. U. THEODERICUS REX.
[1] Nescit serenitatis nostrae prolatum semel titubare iudicium: nec quod provida dispositione constituit, cuiusquam occasionis surreptione mutavit. dudum siquidem ad Albinum atque Avienum patricios viros praecepta nos dedisse retinemus, ut pantomimum prasini partis eligerent, qui praestantius spectaculis conveniret: quod nobis factum sua relatione reserarunt. [2] Et ideo nunc praesenti auctoritate decernimus, ut, quem a supra memoratis magnificis viris electum esse constiterit, ei solitum menstruum partis prasini sine imminutione tribuatis, ut, quod nostra provisio confusionis tollendae causa constituit, non fiat seditionis occasio, sed quietis.
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King Theoderic to Agapitus, vir illustris, prefect of the City.
[1] The judgment of our Serenity, once pronounced, does not know how to waver: nor does it alter by the stealthy intrusion of any opportunity what it has established by provident arrangement. For we remember that some time ago we issued instructions to the patricians Albinus and Avienus, that they should choose the pantomime of the Green faction who was the more outstandingly suited to the spectacles: and they disclosed to us by their report that this had been done. [2] And therefore now, by our present authority, we decree that to the man who shall have been established as chosen by the aforesaid magnificent men, you are to grant the customary monthly allowance of the Green faction without diminution, so that what our foresight established for the sake of removing confusion may not become an occasion of sedition, but of peace.
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Latin / Greek Original
XXXIII. AGAPITO V. I. P. U. THEODERICUS REX.
[1] Nescit serenitatis nostrae prolatum semel titubare iudicium: nec quod provida dispositione constituit, cuiusquam occasionis surreptione mutavit. dudum siquidem ad Albinum atque Avienum patricios viros praecepta nos dedisse retinemus, ut pantomimum prasini partis eligerent, qui praestantius spectaculis conveniret: quod nobis factum sua relatione reserarunt. [2] Et ideo nunc praesenti auctoritate decernimus, ut, quem a supra memoratis magnificis viris electum esse constiterit, ei solitum menstruum partis prasini sine imminutione tribuatis, ut, quod nostra provisio confusionis tollendae causa constituit, non fiat seditionis occasio, sed quietis.