Variae of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator The Right Honourable and Illustrious Ex-Quaestor of the Place, Ex-Ordinary Consul, Ex-Master of T

Cassiodorus (c.485-585), Roman senator and consul, served in various high offices from c.505 to c.538, under the kings of the Ostrogoths, who had inherited the imperial administration of Italy. For long periods the Goths' chief publicist, he compiled the state papers he had drafted, as their regime crumbled under Byzantine attack. This selection is the first translation to appear since 1886.Barnish, S. J. B. is the author of 'Variae of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator The Right Honourable and Illustrious Ex-Quaestor of the Place, Ex-Ordinary Consul, Ex-Master of T', published 1992 under ISBN 9780853234364 and ISBN 0853234361.