Letter 11018: The welcome ceremony of promotions should be embraced, for it releases those who have earned their rest through long...
XVIII.
CONCERNING THE CORNICULARIUS [chief clerk] WHO RETIRES.
[1] The welcome solemnity of promotions is to be embraced, which discharges from duty the watches of those who have served well, because hope of labor is granted to the recruits when the change of office has been rendered to the veterans. And therefore let Anthianus, who is reported to have obeyed the praetorian services blamelessly, hasten among the tribunes and notaries to the adoring of the imperial countenance, so that, presented according to custom, he may be adorned with the insignia of the rank of Respectable [spectabilis].
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Latin / Greek Original
XVIII.
DE CORNICULARIO QUI EGREDITUR.
[1] Amplectenda est promotionum grata sollemnitas, quae bene meritorum solvit excubias, quia tironibus conceditur spes laboris, dum vicissitudo fuerit reddita veteranis. et ideo Anthianum, qui praetorianis inculpabiliter paruisse perhibetur obsequiis, inter tribunos et notarios ad adorandos aspectus properet principales, ut iuxta consuetudinem praesentatus spectabilitatis decoretur insignibus.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern cassiodorus retranslated v1.
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