A.Ab Actis (Registrar), officer in Court of Praetorian Praefect,106-108;origin of the name,107;compared to Referendarius,312.Abundantius, Praetorian Praefect, instructions to, as to forming a navy,v. 16,17;to provide ships, and rations for young recruits,v. 23;instructions to, in the case of Frontosus,v. 34;to allow a family of Curials to degrade into Possessores,ix. 4.Acinaticium, red wine of Verona, praises of, and account of its manufacture,xii. 4.Actores (Representatives, Attorneys), of Albinus,iv. 35;of the holy Apostle Peter,xii. 20;of Probinus,iv. 40;of Spes,ii. 21;of Theodahad,viii. 23.Addua, River (Adda), derivation of the name,xi. 14.Adeodatus, forced by torture to confess himself guilty of rape,iii. 46;the sentence against him partially cancelled,iii. 46.Adjutores, general word for assistants,97,102-104;is Adjutor equivalent to Primiscrinius?103;a lower class of Exceptores seem to have been called Adjutores,111;of Magister Officiorum,vi. 6.Admissionales, Ushers of the Praefectoral Court,112.Adriana, petition of Curiales of, as to taxation,i. 19.Adulterer slain by the injured husband, case of,i. 37.Adultery, punishment of (Edictum Athalarici),ix. 18.Aemilia, Province of, invaded by Burgundians,xii. 28.Aemilianus, Bishop, ordered to finish the aqueduct which he has begun,iv. 31.Aestii,seeHaesti.Aestunae (?), inhabitants of, ordered to send marbles to Ravenna,iii. 9.Aetatis Venia, Formula granting,vii. 41;letter relating to,i. 38.Aetheria, a widow, re-married, accused of wasting her children's property,iv. 12.African. Singular custom by which an African was allowed to claim estate of a fellow-countryman dying without heirs,xii. 9.Agapetus, Pope (June 3, 535—April 21, 536), Cassiodorus seeks to persuade him to found a School of Theology at Rome,56;ordered by Theodahad and Gudelina to give his answer to Justinian's ambassador promptly,x. 19,20,25;mortgaged the Church plate to defray expenses of his journey to Constantinople,xii. 20.Agapita (or Agapeta), Foemina Spectabilis, wife of Basilius, and a person of feeble intellectii. 11;affair of her abduction,ii. 10,11;further light on this affair,iv. 40.Agapitus, with Coelianus, seems to have had special jurisdiction in cases affecting Patricians,i. 23,27.Agathias on Theodoric's protection of the Alamanni,195.Agenantia, widow of Campanianus,ix. 4.Agens Vices(Deputy), functions of,460n;xii. 25.Agentes in Rebus, Schola of, emissaries of the Magister Officiorum,36;Princeps of,xi. 35.Agnellus, Patrician, chooses Festus to defend his interests in his absence,i. 15.Agnellus, fidei-jussor of Crispianus,i. 37.Agnellus, house of, in Castrum Lucullanum given to Joannes,viii. 25.Agrimensor, a Roman, description of,iii. 52.Alamanni, date of Clovis' victory over,23,24,195;Theodoric congratulates Clovis on his victory over,ii. 41;directed to exchange their cattle with Noricans,iii. 50;plundering incursion of, into Liguria,xii. 28;527.Alaric I, clemency of, at siege of Rome,28;xii. 20.Alaric II, letters intended to avert war between Alaric and Clovis,iii. 1-4;possessions granted by, to Church of Narbonne,iv. 17;taxation in the time of,v. 39;reception of his son Gesalic by Thrasamund,v. 43,44.Albienus, Vir Illustris and Patrician, deputed to select a Pantomimist,i. 20,33;appointed Praetorian Praefect (527),viii. 20.Albinus, Vir Illustris and Patrician, deputed to select a Pantomimist,i. 20,33;allowed to erect 'fabricae' overlooking the Forum,iv. 30;accused by Cyprian of treason,289,291.Albinus, an extravagant minor, case of,iv. 35.Allecticii, Symmachus' oration on behalf of,74;probable explanation of the term,78.Alpes Cottiae, Provincials of, to be relieved from taxation,iv. 36.Alsuanum (?), transport of timber to,iv. 8.Altinum, villas of,514n.Amal race, glorified by Cassiodorus in his Gothic History,29,30,33;'Amali sanguinis purpurea dignitas,'ix. 1.Amal race, glory of,viii. 2,5;'consuetudinis est lex, cum imperio [Romano] amicitiam Amalos semper habuisse,'x. 11.Amalus (according to Jordanes, Amala), ancestor of Theodoric, 'felicitate enituit,'xi. 1.Amalabirga, niece of Theodoric, married to Herminafrid, King of the Thuringians,iv. 1.Amalafrida, Queen of the Vandals, sister of Theodoric, wife of King Thrasamund, put to death by his successor Hilderic,ix. 1.Amalasuentha, daughter of Theodoric, mother of Athalaric, her regency,38,42-43;associates Theodahad in the kingship on the death of her son,44;x. 1-4;dethroned and put to death by Theodahad,45;praises of her character,x. 4;xi. 1;sends present of marbles to Justinian,x. 8;writes warmly to Theodora,x. 10;a doubtful allusion to her death,x. 20(seenoteonp. 433).Amandianus, Clarissimus, heirs of, defrauded by Theodahad,v. 12.Ambassadors, Formula respecting,vii. 33.Amber, nature of, described,v. 2.Ambrosius, son of Faustinus, addressed by Ennodius in 'Paraenesis Didascalica,'358;Count of the Sacred Largesses,viii. 13;appointed Quaestor,viii. 13,14.Ambrosius, Illustris (probably the same as preceding), appointed 'Vices Agens' to Cassiodorus as Praetorian Praefect,xi. 4;instructions to,xii. 25.Amphitheatre, sports of, described and condemned,v. 42.Anastasius, Emperor, date of letter to, in the 'Variae,'23;his wrath against Apion and Macedonius,105;relations between him and Theodoric,i. 1n;informed of elevation of Felix to Consulship,ii. 1;as to introduction of Heruli into Italy,258n.Anchorago, a fish caught in the Rhine,xii. 4.Andreas, intestacy of widow of,v. 24.Andreas, defaulting taxpayer in Apulia,v. 31.'Anecdoton Holderi,' MS. containing information as to Cassiodorus and his friends,73-84.Anicii, dignity of the family of,x. 11.Annonae, of soldiers stationed in passes near Aosta,ii. 5;of garrisons on the Durance,iii. 41,43;ispraebendaeequivalent to?219;to be regularly supplied,v. 13(seePraefectus Annonae).Anonymus Valesii (an unknown chronicler of the Sixth Century, whose fragments are generally edited along with the history of Ammianus Marcellinus), quoted,291,363,369.Anthimus, Patriarch of Constantinople (535-536), deposition of, by Pope Agapetus,436n.Antianus, ex-Cornicularius, made a Spectabilis,xi. 18;evasive reply to,xi. 19.Antiochus, apparently a tax-collector,ii. 4.Antiquarius, transcriber of manuscripts, Cassiodorus on the functions of,60.Apion, anger of Anastasius against,105.Apocha, a voucher for payment of taxes,xii. 7,8.Aponus (Abano, six miles from Padua), marvellous qualities of hot-springs at,ii. 39.Apparitores, attendants on the great Ministers of War,114;Joannes, Apparitor,ii. 21;Ferrocinctus, Apparitor,iii. 20.Applicitarii, officers of arrest,114;under orders of Commentariensis,104.Apulia, Conductores of, despoiled by hostile invaders,i. 16;merchants similarly despoiled,ii. 38;crops from, not forwarded expeditiously,i. 35;corn-merchants of,ii. 26;farms of Thomas in, transferred to his son-in-law Joannes,v. 6,7;arrears of Siliquaticum in,v. 31.'Apuli idonei,'viii. 33.Aqua Claudia, Roman aqueduct, description of,vii. 6.Aqua Virgo, Roman aqueduct, description of,vii. 6.Aqueducts of Rome, abuses connected with,iii. 31;glory of,vii. 6.Aqueduct begun by Bishop Aemilianus must be finished by him,iv. 31.Aqueduct of Ravenna protected,v. 38.Aqueduct constructed by Theodoric for City of Parma,viii. 30.Aquileia, contributions of wine and wheat from, remitted,xii. 26.Arator, Vir Illustris, sent by Provincials of Dalmatia to Theodoric,viii. 12;made Comes Domesticorum,viii. 12.Arcadius, Emperor (395-408), change effected by him in relation of Praetorian Praefect to Master of the Offices,99.Arcarius, Treasurer or Steward,v. 7;x. 28(seep. 440);xii. 8,11,27.Archery, practice in, for young soldiers,v. 23.Archiatrus, Arch-Physician,iv. 41(seeComes Archiatrorum).Architect, duties of,vii. 5.Architect, Public, Formula for the Appointment of,vii. 15.Archotamia, 'Illustris Femina,' accuses her grandson's widow of wasting her children's property,iv. 12.Arelate (Arles), remission of taxation to inhabitants of,iii. 32;'glorious defence of,'iii. 32;its walls to be repaired and its citizens fed,iii. 44;fight for possession of covered bridge at,viii. 10.Arethusa, Fountain of, site of, near Squillace,72;qualities of, described,viii. 32.Argolicus, Vir Illustris, made Praefect of the City of Rome,iii. 11,12;his ancestry and character,ii. 11,12;ordered to repair Cloacae of Rome,iii. 30;other references to,iii. 29,30;iv. 22,25;iv. 42;his tardiness rebuked,iv. 29;heirs of, defrauded by Theodahad,v. 12.Arigern, Vir Illustris and Comes, Governor of the new Gaulish Provinces,iv. 16;appointed Comes Urbis Romae (?),iv. 16;instructions to,iii. 45;iv. 23;report by,iv. 43.Armentarius, Clarissimus, appointed Referendus Curiae,iii. 33;informs against Argolicus, Praefect of the City,iv. 29.Armourers (Armorum Factores), Formulae of,vii. 18,19.Arsenals of Italy, under the Magister Officiorum,37.Artemidorus, Illustris and Patrician, a relation of Emperor Zeno, and friend of Theodoric,i. 43;Tribunus Voluptatum (?),i. 43;Praefectus Urbis,i. 42,44;detects embezzlement by persons employed for repair of walls of Rome,ii. 34;invited to Theodoric's Court,iii. 22.Assertor Libertatis (of the Theodosian Code, iv. 8), a possible allusion to,iii. 43.Astensis Civitas (Asti), to be especially helped in relief of necessities of Liguria,xi. 15.Astronomy, reasons derived from, for pensioning off civil servants,xi. 36.Athala, ancestor of Theodoric, 'mansuetudine enituit,'xi. 1.Athalaric, grandson of Theodoric, date of birth of,29n;accession of (Aug. 30, 526),37;manner of his education,42;his death (Oct. 2, 534),43;letters announcing his accession,viii. 1-7;edict of,ix. 2;his death announced to Justinian,x. 1;praises of, by Cassiodorus,xi. 1.Athens (Adige), flows past fort of Verruca,iii. 48.Attila, defeat of, in Catalaunian plains,28;iii. 1;embassy of Cassiodorus (grandfather of Senator) to,i. 4.Augiensis, Codex, of 'Anecdoton Holderi,'73.Augmentum, super-assessment, remitted by Athalaric for Dalmatia and Suavia,ix. 9;for Syracuse,ix. 10.Augusta (Turin, orAosta), Bishop of, falsely accused of treason,i. 9;fastnesses (clusurae) of, soldiers stationed at,ii. 5.Augustales, highest class of Exceptores (shorthand writers),104n,110;xi. 30.Augustin, Vir Venerabilis (probably a bishop), brings the scarcity in Venetiaunder the notice of the King,xii. 26.Augustus, builder of the Circus Maximus,iii. 51;his survey of the 'Orbis Romanus,'iii. 52.Aurarii, persons liable to payment of 'lustralis auri collatio,'ii. 26.Auraria Pensio = probably 'lustralis auri collatio,'ii. 30.Avenio (Avignon), Gothic troops not to molest citizens of,iii. 38.B.Bacauda, Vir Sublimis, Tribunes Voluptatum,v. 25.Bacaudae, insurgent peasantry of Gaul,v. 25.Baiae, baths of, praises of,ix. 6;xii. 22.Balthae, royal house of the Visigoths, was Athalaric descended from?viii. 5.Balzani, Ugo, on Cassiodorus,121.Barbarians, checked by fear, not honour,ii. 5.Barbaria, probably the name of the mother of Romulus Augustulus,216.Barbarian Kings, intellects of, subdued by diplomacy,iv. 3;do not use the grammatical art,ix. 21.Baronius, Cardinal, author of 'Annales Ecclesiae,' quoted,500n,511n.Basilius (No. 1), Vir Spectabilis, claims restoration of his wife's propertyfrom Probinus,ii. 10,11;iv. 40.Basilius (No. 2), accused of magical practices,iv. 22,23(seenote on p. 246).Basilius (No. 3, possibly same as No. 2), Opilio connected with him by marriage,viii. 17;concerned in accusation of Boethius (?),364n.Baths, gratuitous admission to, at Spoletium,ii. 37;of Turasius, at Spoletium,iv. 24;at Baiae,ix. 6.Baudi de Vesme, fragments of oration of Cassiodorus (?), published by,117.Beatus, Vir Clarissimus and Cancellarius, ordered to supply rations to invalided officer,xi. 10;made Primicerius Augustalium,xi. 30.Belisarius, Imperial general, his capture of Neapolis,48;his campaign in Southern Italy,492;his recovery and loss of Milan,522;his entry into Ravenna,51.Bellum (war), derived from King Belus,i. 30.Benedict, St., not alluded to by Cassiodorus,55;relation of his rule to that of Cassiodorus,57,59.Benedictus, a civil officer of some kind in the City of Pedon, guardianship of his children assigned to Theriolus,i. 36.Bethmann Hollweig, his 'Gerichtsverfassung des sinkenden römischen Reichs,'41,95,109n.Bigamy, punishment of, according to Edictum Athalarici,ix. 18.Bina, a kind of tax,iii. 8.Bina et Terna, Formulae for the Collection of,vii. 20,21,22.Birds, habits of,i. 21;the hawk's way of teaching her young to fly,i. 24;the eagle and her young,i. 38;filial piety of the stork,ii. 14;instinct of young partridges towards their mother,ii. 14;the vulture protects little birds from attacks of the hawk,ii. 19;gulls fly inland when they foresee a storm,iii. 48;cranes when about to cross the sea clasp pebbles with their claws,iv. 47;the turtle-dove once widowed never takes another mate,v. 33;flight of cranes suggested to Mercury shapes of letters,viii. 12;thrushes, storks, and doves gregarious, the greedy hawk loves solitude,viii. 31;orderly evolutions of cranes,ix. 2.Bishops, King Witigis' exhortations to,x. 34;Cassiodorus' exhortations to,xi. 4.Blue party in the Circus, rivalry of, with the Greens,iii. 51.Bodily signs by which character may be discerned,vi. 9(comparealso Cassiodorus, 'De Animâ,' capp. 10 and 11, referred top. 53).Boethius (or Boetius), Illustris and Patrician, receives orders to choose a harper to be sent to Clovis,23,24;ii. 40;information as to his life in the 'Anecdoton Holderi,'74,79-84;really author of the theological treatises which have passed current with his name,74,80-83;and of a 'Bucolic Poem,'74,83;difficulty caused by the non-Christian character of his 'Consolations of Philosophy,'81,83;consulted as to depreciation of currency,i. 10;ordered to prepare water-clock and sundial for King of Burgundians,i. 45.Boethius, as to character of Basilius,246n;as to character of Decoratus,267n;character of his accuser Cyprian,v. 40,41;viii. 21,22;character of Opilio,viii. 17.Boethus, Bishop of Byzacene Province in Africa, author, according to M. Jourdain, of the theological treatises attributed to Boethius,82.Bormiae Aquae (Baths of Bormio), Count Winusiad recommended to visit,x. 29.Brandila, husband of Procula, story of his intrigue with Regina, wife of Patzenes,v. 32,33.Breones, a Raetian freebooting tribe living near the Brenner pass,i. 11.Bribery repressed,xii. 2,6,21,26.Bridge of boats ordered to be built across the Tiber,xii. 19.Brosse, Pierre, notes of, on Cassiodorus,117.Bruttiiand Lucania, Venantius Corrector of,iii. 8,46,47;his misgovernment of,221;the praises of,viii. 31;xii. 15;'opulenti Bruttii,'viii. 33;gold-mining to be commenced in,ix. 3;abundance of cattle in,ii. 39;measures for relief of, during presence of Gothic army,xii. 5;praise of the wine of,xii. 12;Canonicarii of, rebuked for despoiling the churches,xii. 13.Buat, Count, on the life and ancestry of Cassiodorus,118;as to Theodora's share in the murder of Amalasuentha,433n.Burgundians, King of (seeGundibad);cease to be 'Gentiles' under Gundibad,i. 46;boundary of, with Ostrogothic kingdom,iii. 41;dispute with Franks,viii. 10;league with Amalasuentha,xi. 1(see456n);invasion of Liguria and Aemilia,xii. 28;527.Butilianus, Presbyter, land allotment given by Theodoric to, in neighbourhood of Trient,ii. 17.C.Caduca bona, property to which no heir is forthcoming, and which is therefore claimed by the State,v. 24;vi. 8.Caelianus, one of the Quinque-viri appointed to try Basilius and Praetextatus,iv. 22,23.Calabria, crops from, not forwarded expeditiously,i. 35;regulations for corn-traffic in,ii. 26;arrears of Siliquaticum in,v. 31.'Calabri peculiosi,'viii. 33.Calogenitus, sent by Amalasuentha to Justinian with a present of marbles,x. 8,9.Campania, practice ofpignoratioprevalent in,iv. 10;suffers from eruption of Vesuvius,iv. 50;'industriosa Campania,'viii. 33;Cancellarius of, to pay pension to retiring Primiscrinius,xi. 37;the cupboard of Rome ('urbis regiae cella penaria'),xii. 22.Campanianus, of Lucania, widow and family of, permitted to step down from rank of Curiales,ix. 4.Cancellarius, an officer of humble rank in the Court of the Praetorian Praefect,111,112;origin of the name,112;his functions described,xi. 6;of Faustus, desired to forward corn from Apulia,i. 35;Beatus (Vir Clarissimus) ordered to supply rations to invalided officer,xi. 10;Gaudiosus, Cancellarius of Province of Inguria,xi. 14;Anatholius, Cancellarius of Samnium,xi. 36;Lucinus, Cancellarius of Campania,xi. 37;Vitalian, Cancellarius of Lucania and Bruttii,xi. 39;admonition to various Cancellarii,xii. 1,10;Sajones ordered to wait upon Cancellarii,xii. 3;Anastasius, Cancellarius of Lucania and Bruttii, ordered to send cheese and wine for royal table,xii. 12;the same, ordered to be gentle with the citizens of Rhegium,xii. 14;Maximus, Cancellarius of Lucania and Bruttii,xii. 15.Canonicarii, tribute-collectors under Comes Rerum Privatarum,vi. 8;to collect the Trina Illatio,xii. 16;of Thuscia,xi. 38;