18-35. VARIOUSLY ADDRESSED. [Documents, for the most part very
short ones, relating to these promotions.] 477-480
36. TO ANAT(H)OLIUS. Retirement of a Cornicularius on superannuation
allowance justified on astronomical grounds 480
37. " LUCINUS. Payment of retiring Primiscrinius 482
38. " JOANNES. Praises of paper 483
39. " VITALIAN. Payment of commuted cattle-tax 484
40. INDULGENCE [TO PRISONERS ON SOME GREAT FESTIVAL OF THE
CHURCH, PROBABLY EASTER]. General Amnesty 485


BOOK XII.

CONTAINING TWENTY-EIGHT LETTERS WRITTEN BY CASSIODORUS IN HIS OWN NAME
AS PRAETORIAN PRAEFECT.

1. TO THE VARIOUS CANCELLARII OF THE PROVINCES. General
instructions 487
2. " ALL JUDGES OF THE PROVINCES. General instructions to
Provincial Governors 488
3. " SAJONES ASSIGNED TO THE CANCELLARII. General instructions 489
4. " THE CANONICARIUS OF THE VENETIAE. Praise of _Acinaticium_ 490
5. " VALERIAN. Measures for relief of Lucania and Bruttii 492
6. " ALL SUBORDINATE GOVERNORS OF THE PRAEFECTURE. General
instructions 494
7. " THE TAX-COLLECTOR OF THE VENETIAN PROVINCE. Remission
of taxes on account of invasion by Suevi 495
8. " THE CONSULARIS OF THE PROVINCE OF LIGURIA. Permission
to pay taxes direct to Royal Treasury 495
9. " PASCHASIUS. Claim of an African to succeed to estate of