What case like this can be produced from the annaJa of revered Antiquity? PIacidia's care for her purpleclad son bas often been celebrated but by Placidia's lax administration of the Empire its boundaries were unbecomingly retrenched. You do not hear her announce beforehand what will be her course of action in public but with marvellous skill she attains, by feigning, those points which she knows require to be rapidly gained 1.
few words she unties the knots of entangled litigations, she calmly arranges hot disputes, she silently promotes the public welfare. 'Yet, while she rejoices in auch perfect mastery of language, on public occasions she is so taciturn that she might be supposed to be indolent. The treasures of ancien! learning are appropriated, and the dignity of the throne is ever enhanced. 'Tu these a~complishmcnts, as a splendid dia~em, is added that priceless knowledge of Literature, by which The letter written by Caemodorus himself, in the name of Athala.nc, to announce Ms elevation to the Praefecture (Var. Everyone feels that his own words are listened to, and receives his aj? er from her lips in thé language of his forefathers.
No ambassador need wait, or hear his words slowly filtered through the mind of a go-between. None needs an interpréter with his accomplished mistress. THE LETTERS OF and a great excellence is this in TheĮstimated recognition rate for this document is 89%. The text of this document has been generated automatically by an optical character recognition (OCR) program. The text displayed may contain some errors. Provenance : Bibliothèque nationale de France Source : Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Philosophie, histoire, sciences de l'homme, C-5078 Préfacierĭescription : Contient une table des matières Auteur du texteĬontributor : Hodgkin, Thomas (1831-1913). Title : The letters of Cassiodorus : being a condensed translation of the Variae epistolae of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus. The letters of Cassiodorus : being a condensed translation of the Variae epistolae of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus.
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