However, other sources depict these men in far more positive light: for example Cassiodorus describes Cyprianus and Opilio as " utterly scrupulous, just and loyal " and mentions they are brothers and grandsons of the consul Opilio ; Theodoric was feeling threatened by international events: the Acacian Schism had been resolved, and the Catholic Christians aristocrats of his kingdom were seeking to renew their ties with Constantinople ; the Catholic Hilderic became king of the Vandals and put his sister Amalafrida to death ; and Arian Christians in the East were being persecuted.

In 533 a letter ostensibly written by King Athalaric to the senate in Rome, but ghosted by Cassiodorus, mentions the great work on the Goths, now complete, in which Cassiodorus " restored the Amali with the illustriousness of their race.

Cassiodorus mentions sixteen books of Columella, which has led to the suggestion that De Arboribus formed part of a work in four volumes.

Cassiodorus, the only writer who mentions Arusianus, refers to it by the term Quadriga.

Jordanes was asked by a friend to write this book as a summary of a multi-volume history of the Goths ( now lost ) by the statesman Cassiodorus.

Cassiodorus the courtier and magister of Theodoric the Great and his successors, left a book of panegyrics, his Laudes.

In the second book, dealing with dialectic and rhetoric, Isidore is heavily indebted to translations from the Greek by Boethius, and in treating logic, Cassiodorus, who provided the gist of Isidore's treatment of arithmetic in Book III.

Sixth Century historian Jordanes makes two references the Aesti in his book " The Origins and the Deeds of the Goths ", which was a treatment of Cassiodorus ' longer book ( which no longer survives ) on the history of the Goths.

The letters of Cassiodorus, chief minister and literary adviser of Amalasuntha, and the histories of Procopius and Jordanes, give us our chief information as to the character of Amalasuntha.

Adam based his works in part on Einhard, Cassiodorus, and other earlier historians, as he had the whole library of the church of Bremen at his fingertips.

He also drew on Josephus's Antiquities, and the works of Cassiodorus, and there was a copy of the Liber Pontificalis in Bede's monastery.

In the monastic library at Jarrow were a number of books by theologians, including works by Basil, Cassian, John Chrysostom, Isidore of Seville, Origen, Gregory of Nazianzus, Augustine of Hippo, Jerome, Pope Gregory I, Ambrose of Milan, Cassiodorus, and Cyprian.

) Letters of Cassiodorus, London: H. Frowde.

The first Christian encyclopedia were the Institutiones divinarum et saecularium litterarum of Cassiodorus ( 543-560 ), which were divided in two parts: the first one dealt with Christian Divinity ; the second one described the seven liberal arts.

This was repeated by Claudian and Sidonius and reinterpreted by Cassiodorus.

Despite numerous errors taken over from Eusebius, and some of his own, Jerome produced a valuable work, if only for the impulse which it gave to such later chroniclers as Prosper, Cassiodorus, and Victor of Tunnuna to continue his annals.

According to his own introduction, he only had three days to review what Cassiodorus had written, meaning that he must also have relied on his own knowledge.

In the preface to his Getica, Jordanes writes that he is interrupting his work on the Romana at the behest of a brother Castalius, who apparently knew that Jordanes had had the twelve volumes of the History of the Goths by Cassiodorus at home.

* Arne Søby Christensen, Cassiodorus, Jordanes, and the History of the Goths.

Cassiodorus, minister to Theodoric, established a monastery at Vivarium in the heel of Italy with a library where he attempted to bring Greek learning to Latin readers and preserve texts both sacred and secular for future generations.

As its unofficial librarian, Cassiodorus not only collected as many manuscripts as he could, he also wrote treatises aimed at instructing his monks in the proper uses of reading and methods for copying texts accurately.

Cassiodorus, a Roman in the service of Theodoric the Great, invented the term " Visigothi " to match that of " Ostrogothi ", which terms he thought of as " western Goths " and " eastern Goths " respectively.

Furthermore, Cassiodorus used the term " Goths " to refer only to the Ostrogoths, whom he served, and reserved the geographical term " Visigoths " for the Gallo-Hispanic Goths.

Agapetus collaborated with Cassiodorus in founding at Rome a library of ecclesiastical authors in Greek and Latin and helped Cassiodorus with the project of translating the standard Greek philosophers into Latin.

The word is Latin, meaning " the four ways " ( or a " place where four roads meet "), and its use for the 4 subjects has been attributed to Boethius or Cassiodorus in the 6th century.

Cassiodorus, then a secretary to Theodoric the Great, wrote a letter to a " Romulus " in 507 confirming a pension.

Thomas Hodgkin, a translator of Cassiodorus ' works, wrote in 1886 that it was " surely possible " the Romulus in the letter was the same person as the last western emperor.

But Cassiodorus does not supply any details about his correspondent or the size and nature of his pension, and Jordanes, whose history of the period abridges an earlier work by Cassiodorus, makes no mention of a pension.

Cassiodorus, a Roman in the service of Theodoric the Great, invented the term " Visigothi " to match that of " Ostrogothi ", which terms he thought of as signifying " western Goths " and " eastern Goths " respectively.

He was the first editor of the Letters of Cassiodorus, with his Treatise on the Soul ( 1538 ); and his edition of Ammianus Marcellinus ( 1533 ) contains five books more than any former one.

* An introduction to the Letters of Cassiodorus: being a condensed translation of the Variae Epistolae of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus, Senator ( London, 1886 ).

The comma is also absent from an extant fragment of Clement of Alexandria ( c. 200 ), through Cassiodorus ( 6th century ), with homily style verse references from 1 John, including verse 1 John 5: 6 and 1 John 5: 8 without verse 7, the heavenly witnesses.

The presence in Jerusalem of the relic is attested by Cassiodorus ( c. 485 – c. 585 ) as well as by Gregory of Tours ( c. 538 – 594 ), who had not actually been to Jerusalem.

Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator ( c. 485 – c. 585 ), commonly known as Cassiodorus, was a Roman statesman and writer, serving in the administration of Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths.

This was also a period of transmission: the Roman patrician Boethius ( c. 480 – 524 ) translated part of Aristotle's logical corpus, thus preserving it for the Latin West, and wrote the influential literary and philosophical treatise De consolatione Philosophiae ; Cassiodorus ( c. 485 – 585 ) founded an important library at the monastery of Vivarium near Squillace where many texts from Antiquity were to be preserved.

The History was used in the Excerpta de Legationibus of Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus ( r. 913 – 959 ), as well as by authors such as Evagrius Scholasticus, Cassiodorus, Jordanes, and the author of the Souda.

* Cassiodorus ( 69 – 70 )

The late Roman senator Cassiodorus ( c. 485 – 585 ) advocated in his rulebook for monastic life the water clock as a useful alarm for the ' soldiers of Christ ' ( Cassiod.

Cassiodorus ' successor was appointed from Constantinople.

The Institutiones seem to have been composed over a lengthy period of time, from the 530s into the 550s, with redactions up to the time of Cassiodorus ’ death.

Excerpts from his treatise De enuntiatione vel orthographia are preserved in Cassiodorus.

Because the original work of Cassiodorus has not survived, the work of Jordanes is one of the most important sources for the period of the migration of the European tribes, and the Ostrogoths and Visigoths in particular, from the 3rd century CE.

The fact that Jordanes once obtained them from a steward indicates that the wealthy Cassiodorus was able to hire at least one full-time custodian of them and other manuscripts of his ; i. e., a private librarian ( a custom not unknown even today ).

The classically-clothed Christianity preserved in Italy by men like Boethius and Cassiodorus was different from the vigorous Frankish Christianity documented by Gregory of Tours which was different again from the Christianity that flourished in Ireland and Northumbria in the 7th and 8th centuries.

Illustration of David as Victor from the Durham Cassiodorus.

As sources, Aurelian used Isidore of Seville, Cassiodorus, and above all Boethius, but the eight Tones were more likely than not imported from Byzantine music in the 8th century.

In spite of numerous errors taken over from Eusebius, and some of his own, Jerome produced a valuable work of universal history, if only for the impulse which it gave to such later chroniclers as Prosper, Cassiodorus, and Victor of Tunnuna to continue his annals.

A Danish historian, Arne Søby has nonetheless proposed that Cassiodorus, who wrote the original text on which Jordanes ' work is based, invented him, with inspiration from the name of Βέρικος ( Berikos or Verica ).

File: DurhamCassiodorusDavidVictor. JPG | David from the Durham Cassiodorus, a rare non-liturgical illuminated manuscript from the early period.

Among students of medieval architecture and engineering, such as are preserved in the notebooks of Villard de Honnecourt, Corbie is of interest as the center of renewed interest in geometry and surveying techniques, both theoretical and practical, as they had been transmitted from Euclid through the Geometria of Boethius and works by Cassiodorus ( Zenner ).