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letters and Cassiodorus
The letters of bishop Avitus and Cassiodorus provide glimpses of Gundobad's intellectual side.
His Codex Encyclicus, compiled at the urging of Cassiodorus, collects and translates letters addressed by different synods to the Emperor Leo I in defence of the decrees of the Council of Chalcedon against the Monophysite Timotheus Aelurus.

letters and chief
The four cups might also reflect the Roman custom of drinking as many cups as there are letters in the name of the chief guest at a meal, which in the case of the Seder is God Himself whose Hebrew name has four letters.
A significant corpus of letters dates from the period, especially from Alcuin, an English deacon and scholar who spent over a decade at Charlemagne's court as one of his chief advisors, and corresponded with kings, nobles and ecclesiastics throughout England.
His chief functions are to spread gossip and deliver letters.
Tolkien called Sam the " chief hero " of the saga in one of his letters: he places special emphasis on Sam's " rustic love " for Rosie, a union that serves to establish a family in which allusions to Elvish wonders ( embodied in Sam's daughter Elanor ) are combined with the best qualities of traditional Shire-life.
In Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings, he reproduces letters received from the chief of a U. S. Air Force cartography section stationed at Westover AFB in 1961.
Webb forwarded many of the letters to police chief Parker who promised " ten more shows illustrating the folly of giving rifles to children ".
He founded in 1868 the Yorick Club, which soon numbered among its members the chief Australian men of letters.
Throughout a life spent mainly in Paris, Banville's genial character and cultivated mind won him the friendship of the chief men of letters of his time.
The chief works of this time are the " speeches " made at the Council of Florence, also a number of letters addressed to various friends, bishops, and statesmen, mostly unedited.
For the life of Julius Caesar, the letters edited by his son, those subsequently published in 1620 by the President de Maussac, the Scaligerana, and his own writings are full of autobiographical matter, are the chief authorities.
The three chief divisions of his prose work are his Recherches, his letters and his professional speeches.
He was attended by his council, headed by the temporary Chancellor ... the new chief justice ... the royal chancery ... Their formidable task in Chelmsford was to draft, engross, date, seal and despatch by messengers riding to the farthest corners of the realm, the daily batches of commissions, mandates, letters, orders and proclamations issued by the government not only to speed the process of pacification of the kingdom, but to conduct much ordinary day to day business of the Crown and Government.
The letters of summons to the Estates-General of 1484 invited the ecclesiastics, nobles, and Third Estate to meet at the chief town of their bailliage or sénéchaussé and elect deputies.
" Regarding the large proportion of Jews in Alexandria, he writes, " There are five districts in the city, named after the first five letters of the written alphabet, of these two are called the quarters of the Jews, because the chief portion of the Jews lives in them.
He produced false letters to support his words, threatened to kill both himself and his children, and thus obtained, through the medium of Zadoc Kahn, chief rabbi of France, assistance from the Rothschilds ( June, 1894 ).
His chief wife, Tiye, is known to have outlived him for at least twelve years as she is mentioned in several Amarna letters dated from her son's reign as well as depicted at a dinner table with Akhenaten and his royal family in scenes from the tomb of Huya, which were made during Year 9 and Year 12 of her son's reign.
In his Latin letters to Charles V, James V refers to Lindsay as " chief herald " or " first of our order.
Some letters of hers are preserved, especially a curious correspondence with Anne, Duchess of Montpensier " La Grande Mademoiselle " on marriage, but her chief work is her Mémoires, which are in effect a history of Anne of Austria, written briefly till the date of Mme de Motteville's return to court, and then with fullness.
But when the chief censor ( Rear Admiral Charles P. Plunkett ) was found to have written far more obscene letters to General Chamberlaine, he was discredited: soldiers really did speak that way.
Asomtavruli ( ასომთავრული, " capital letters ") derives from aso ( ასო, " letter, type ") and mtavari ( მთავარი, " main, chief, principal, head ").
I did not then know that my father's mail was being censored until one day the chief of police at Kaohsiung quietly warned my father to tell his son not to write such letters, and that my name too was now on a blacklist.
In April 2010, the chief executive of Financial Regulation at the Central Bank of Ireland told the same committee that " senior management of the exchange should step up to the plate " after failing to help charities, credit unions and rich individuals who received letters informing them that many investments made by stockbrokers over the past decade are now worthless.

letters and minister
What otherwise could `` the lawyer, doctor, minister, the men of science and letters '' do when told that they had `` become the cherubim and seraphim and the three archangels who stood before the golden throne of the merchant, and continually cried, ' Holy, holy, holy is the Almighty Dollar ' ``??
The concept is one of the lasting legacies of the Carolingian Renaissance: " Europa " often figures in the letters of Charlemagne's cultural minister, Alcuin.
* Spanish foreign minister Juan Valera's Pepita Jimenez ( 1874 ) is writing in three sections, with the first and third being a series of letters, while the middle part is a narration by an unknown observer.
Note: John R. Smith, the son of a Methodist minister named John L. Smith, wrote letters years later recalling that Northup and Tabbs Gross ( another black man ) had assisted his father and fugitive slaves with the Underground Railroad in Vermont.
Giustino Fortunato, prime minister of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, knew of the letters from Paolo Ruffo, neapolitan ambassador in London, but he didn't informed the king Ferdinand II.
* Zeno of Caunus ( 3rd century BC ), finance minister to the Ptolemies, whose papyri letters ( the " Zenon archive ") were discovered in the 1900s
In these decisions, President Narayanan set a new precedent concerning the appointment of a Prime minister — if no party or pre-election coalition had a majority, then a person would be appointed Prime minister only if he was able to convince the President ( through letters of support from allied parties ) of his ability to secure the confidence of the house.
According to family letters, Custer was named after George Armstrong, a minister, in his devout father's hope that his son might join the clergy.
To the frustration of the Vaniers, these efforts were met predominantly with indifference and even anger, and Vanier's letters to the prime minister at the time, William Lyon Mackenzie King, failed to induce a change in Canada's immigration policies.
The XYZ Affair originated with a report distributed by Adams where alleged French agents were identified by the letters X, Y, and Z who informed the delegation a bribe must be paid before the diplomats could meet with the foreign minister, and the resulting scandal increased popular support in the country for a war with France.
Consequently, the letters and the translations Swift provided did not gibe, and, since Swift could not accuse Temple of falsifying his letters, and because the public would never believe that the retired state minister had lied, Swift came across as incompetent.
The concept did not wither and, on 5 January 1888, British prime minister Lord Salisbury submitted to the Queen a draft constitution for an Order of Merit in Science and Art, consisting of one grade split into two branches of knighthood: the Order of Scientific Merit for Knights of Merit in Science, with the post-nominal letters KMS and the Order of Artistic Merit for Knights of Merit in Art, with the post-nominal letters KMA.
Despite being qualified to preach, Latreille later wrote that he had never carried out his functions as a minister, although for a few years he signed the letters he wrote "" (" the Reverend Latreille ") or "" (" Latreille, Priest ").
The circuit minister had pastoral oversight and administered sacraments, but the majority of services were led, and sermons preached, by Local Preachers ( note the capital letters ).
* Henry Rogers, ( 1806 – 1877 ), nonconformist minister and man of letters, died in Machynlleth.
This leads to a phrase in correspondence by government departments, " the Minister has directed me to write ", on letters or documents that the minister in question may never have seen.
According to Taliban minister, Abdul Salam Zaeef, UNESCO sent the Taliban government 36 letters objecting to the proposed destruction.
French-speaking political parties, especially, protested against the Flemish ministerial circular letters from the socialist minister Leo Peeters ( see supra ).
Four months after being taken to Dhoonidhoo, secret letters were exchanged between him and Ibrahim Hilmy Didi, to bring an end to this revolutionary government and to restore the monarchy, with Ibrahim Hilmy as the king and Amin Didi as the prime minister.
Robert Murray Keith ( d. 1774 ), descended from a younger son of the family, was a British minister in Vienna in 1748, and subsequently held other important diplomatic appointments, being known to his numerous friends, among whom were the leading men of letters of his time, as " Ambassador Keith ".
In May 1784, he nominated Thomas Jefferson as minister plenipotentiary to Europe to assist John Adams and Benjamin Franklin in negotiating treaties of commerce ; and in January 1785, was a member of a committee that reported on letters that had been received from United States ministers in Europe relative to a foreign loan.

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