Letter 4045: King Theodoric to the Counts, Defensores [city advocates], and Town Councillors of the City of Ticinum [modern Pavia].

XLV. King Theoderic to the counts, defenders, and curials [town councillors] of the city of Ticinum [Pavia]. [1] We have ordered the Heruli, who as suppliants and by God's prompting come to our court, to proceed to our appointed places, and to these men passage by ship is to be furnished, lest in our homeland they should still seem to suffer the want of their own province. Therefore, forewarned by the present command, prepare for them without any delay both the use of a ship as far as the city of Ravenna and provisions for five days, and see that nothing necessary is lacking to them, so that they may learn, from the abundance they find, that they have abandoned a famished province, and that the foreign land may prove more bountiful to them than their homeland.

XLV. COMITIBUS DEFENSORIBUS ET CURIALIBUS TICINENSIS CIVITATIS THEODERICUS REX. [1] Ad comitatum supplices Erulos auctore deo nostris venire iussimus constitutis, quibus navis est praebenda subvectio, ne in patria nostra adhuc provinciae suae laborare videantur inopia. itaque praesenti iussione commoniti et navis eis usum usque ad Ravennatem urbem et annonas dierum quinque sine aliqua dilatione praeparate nec aliquid eis necessarium deesse faciatis, quatenus provinciam se deseruisse ieiunam de copiae inventione cognoscant sitque illis uberior peregrina terra quam patria.