Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Chronological table
- Maps
- 1 EMBASSIES AND POLITICAL COMMUNICATION IN THE POST-IMPERIAL WEST
- 2 THE PROVINCIAL VIEW OF HYDATIUS
- 3 THE HERO AS ENVOY: SIDONIUS APOLLINARIS' PANEGYRIC ON AVITUS
- 4 THE SAINT AS ENVOY: FIFTH- AND SIXTH-CENTURY LATIN BISHOPS' LIVES
- 5 CASSIODORUS AND SENARIUS
- 6 NEGOTIUM AGENDUM
- CONCLUSION
- Appendix I Chronology of Constantius, Vita Germani
- Appendix II Chronology of the life of Epiphanius of Pavia
- Appendix III Senarius' Letters of Appointment: Cassiodorus, Variae IV, 3 and 4
- Appendix IV The text of Senarius' Epitaph
- Note on editions, commentaries, and translations of major sources
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought Fourth series
Appendix III - Senarius' Letters of Appointment: Cassiodorus, Variae IV, 3 and 4
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Chronological table
- Maps
- 1 EMBASSIES AND POLITICAL COMMUNICATION IN THE POST-IMPERIAL WEST
- 2 THE PROVINCIAL VIEW OF HYDATIUS
- 3 THE HERO AS ENVOY: SIDONIUS APOLLINARIS' PANEGYRIC ON AVITUS
- 4 THE SAINT AS ENVOY: FIFTH- AND SIXTH-CENTURY LATIN BISHOPS' LIVES
- 5 CASSIODORUS AND SENARIUS
- 6 NEGOTIUM AGENDUM
- CONCLUSION
- Appendix I Chronology of Constantius, Vita Germani
- Appendix II Chronology of the life of Epiphanius of Pavia
- Appendix III Senarius' Letters of Appointment: Cassiodorus, Variae IV, 3 and 4
- Appendix IV The text of Senarius' Epitaph
- Note on editions, commentaries, and translations of major sources
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought Fourth series
Summary
TEXT (ED. MOMMSEN)
IV, 3: Senario v.i. comiti privatarum Theodericus rex
Ad ornatum palatii credimus pertinere aptas dignitatibus personas eligere, quia de claritate servientium crescit fama dominorum. Tales enim provehere principem decet, ut quotiens procerem suum fuerit dignitus aspicere, totiens se recta iudicia cognoscat habuisse. Moribus enim debet esse conspicuus, qui datur imitandus. Facile est quemque sibi degere: multis autem electum vivere decet. Cape igitur per indictionem tertiam illustris comitivae nostri patrimonii dignitatem, quam tibi non inmerito tribuit regalis auctoritas. Diu namque nostris ordinationibus geminum mutuatus obsequium et concilii particeps eras et disposita laudabili assumptione complebas. Subisti saepe arduae legationis officium: restitisti regibus non impar assertor, coactus iustitiam nostram et illis ostendere, qui rationem vix poterant cruda obstinatione sentire. Non te terruit contentionibus inflammata regalis auctoritas, subiugasti quin immo audaciam veritati et obsecitus ordinationibus nostris in conscientiam suam barbaros perculisti. Quid studium tuum longa lucubratione sollicitum et laboris continui inculpabile referamus obsequium? Usus es sub exceptionis officio eloquentis ingenio: favebat ipse sui delectatus auditor, dum meliora faceres, cum recitare coepisses. Pronuntiatio tua nostrum delectabat arbitrum, quia tantum dictantium reficiebas animum, quantum se lassare poterat cura cognitantum. Fuit quoque in te pars altera vitae laudabilis, quod arcana nostra morum probitate claudebas, multorum conscius, nec tamen, cum plura nosses, elatus. Collegis gratia, superioribus humilitate placuisti. Sic omnium pro te factus est unus animus ex magna diversitate sociatus. Carpes certe probatae institutionis gratissimum fructum, quando provectus tuus ita potuit omnes laetos efficere, ut universi in te iudicent sua desideria profecisse.
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