Chapter 62

Theodahad announces arrival of Gothic garrison to, x. 18; ordered by Theodahad to communicate with Justinian, x. 19; Cassiodorus writes to, on his elevation to the Praetorian Praefecture, xi. 1; petition of, to Justinian for peace, xi. 13.

SENATOR, FORMULA CONFERRING THE RANK OF, vi. 14.

Severinus (or Severianus), Vir Illustris, appointed a Commissioner for Province of Suavia, to remedy financial abuses, v. 14, 15; again sent to Suavia and Dalmatia with Osuin, ix. 9.

Severus, Vir Spectabilis, apparently Governor of Bruttii and Lucania, vii. 31-33.

Sextarius, corn measure, ii. 26.

Sicily, inhabitants of, suspicious, and with difficulty won over to the rule of Theodoric, i. 3; Filagrius, a citizen of Syracuse, asks leave to return to, i. 39; possessions of Milanese Church in, ii. 29; Valerian, a citizen of Syracuse, allowed to return thither, iv. 6; FORMULA OF COUNT OF SYRACUSE, vi. 22; _augmentum_ imposed by Theodoric remitted by Athalaric, ix. 10, 11, 12; oppressive acts of Censitores and Count of Syracuse rebuked, ix. 11, 14.

Sidonius, Apollinaris, possible quotation from, iii. 16.

Sigismer, Illustris and Count, sent to administer to the Senate the oath of fidelity to Athalaric, viii. 2.

Signine Channel, near Ravenna (?), shrubs growing in, to be rooted up, v. 38.

Sila, Mount, in Bruttii, celebrated for its cheese, xii. 12.

Silentiarii, thirty life-guards, 88.

Siliqua, one-twenty-fourth of solidus, 173.

Siliquaticum, a tax of one-twenty-fourth on sales in open market, collection of, ii. 4; exemption from, ii. 30; iv. 19; collection of arrears of, in Dalmatia, iii. 25; collection of arrears of, in Apulia and Calabria, v. 31.

Siliquatarii, ii. 12, 26; xii. 17.

Simeon, Vir Illustris and Comes, appointed to collect arrears of taxation in Dalmatia, iii. 25, 26.

Simeonius (an Apulian or Calabrian), summoned for arrears of Siliquaticum, v. 31.

Simony practised at Papal elections, edict against, ix. 15, 16.

Simplicius, Pope (468-483), bought a house at Rome claimed by the Samaritans, iii. 45.

Singularii, servants charged with conveying the orders of the Praetorian Praefect into the Provinces, 113; origin of their name, 113. (_See_ also, xi. 31, 32.)

Sipontum in Apulia, merchants of, despoiled by Byzantine fleet (?), ii. 38.

Sirmium, war of (504), Tulum's services in, viii. 10; Cyprian's services in, viii. 22.

Slave of a Senator, murderer of a freeborn citizen, to be surrendered, i. 30; as to levy of slaves for the navy, v. 16; Gothic soldier made a slave wrongfully, v. 29; degrading services (servitia famulatus) not to be claimed of freeborn Goths, v. 30, 39; Tanca is accused of unjustly enslaving two rustic neighbours, viii. 28.

Slaves, runaway, to be restored to their owners, iii. 43; did free Italians sell their children as? viii. 33 _n_.

Solidus, 'the ancients wished that it should consist of 6,000 denarii' (?), i. 10.

Sona, Illustris, iii. 15.

Sontius (_Isonzo_), River of, Theodoric's crossing of, made an era in lawsuits as to landed property, i. 18; the Lucristani (?) on, ordered to attend to the Cursus Publicus, i. 29.

Sors, land-allotment, ii. 17.

Sors nascendi of the Curialis, ii. 18.

Spain, to send corn-supplies to Rome, v. 35; abuses in administration of, to be repressed, v. 39.

Spatarius, sword-bearer, an officer in the royal household, iii. 43.

Spectabiles, second class of Ministers, who belonged to it? 90, 91; honour of, conferred on Stephanus, ii. 28; Comes Primi Ordinis, highest of, vi. 12; FORMULA CONFERRING RANK OF, vii. 37; Antianus, ex-Cornicularius, receives rank of, xi. 18; retiring Primiscrinius receives rank of, xi. 20.

Spes, Spectabilis, has a concession for draining land, ii. 21.

Spoletium (_Spoleto_), gratuitous admission to baths at, ii. 37; rebuilding behind the Baths of Turasius at, iv. 24; Honoratus, advocate at, v. 4.

_Staletti_, near Squillace, near the site of Vivarian Monastery, 71.

Starcedius, Vir Sublimis, allowed to retire from military service, but without a pension, v. 36.

Statue, theft of brazen, at Comum, ii. 35, 36.

Statues, care of, at Como, ii. 35, 36; at Rome, vii. 13, 15.

Ste. Marthe, Denys de, author of 'Vie de Cassiodore,' 118.

Stephanus, killed by his servants and left unburied, ii. 19.

Stephanus, petition of, against Bishop of Pola, iv. 44.

Stratonicea, Edict of, by Diocletian, 'de pretiis venalium rerum,' 470.

Style, Cassiodorus on the different kinds of, 139.

Suarii, pork-butchers, subject to Praefectus Annonae, vi. 18.

S(u)avia (_Sclavonia_), Fridibad appointed Governor of, iv. 49; order to be maintained in, iv. 49; grievances of the Possossores of, to be redressed, v. 14; Osuin appointed Governor of, ix. 8, 9.

Subadjuvae, deputy cashiers (?), 109.

Sublimis, epithet used in the 'Variae,' 91 _n_; equivalent to Spectabilis (?), 91.

Suevi (perhaps here the same as Alamanni) invade the Venetian Province (536), xii. 7.

Sulcatoriae (?), some kind of merchant ships, ii. 20.

SUMMONS, LETTERS OF, TO THE KING'S COURT, FORMULAE EVOCATORIAE, vii. 34, 35.

Sundial, description of, to be made by Boetius for Gundibad, i. 45.

Superbus, son of Armentarius, appointed Referendus Curiae, iii. 33.

Sustineo, technically used of the King's reception of his guests, iii. 22 (and 28).

Swords, description of, sent by King of the Vandals to Theodoric, v. 1.

Symmachus, Pope (498-514), contested election with Laurentius, 26.

Symmachus the Elder, orator and leader of the Pagan party in the Senate, 78; was he also a historian? 78.

Symmachus, Q. Aurelius Memmius, Consul (485), Patrician, father-in-law of Boethius, information as to, in the 'Anecdoton Holderi,' 74, 77-79; his speech for the 'Allecticii,' 78; his Roman History, 78; his claims against Paulinus, i. 23; one of the Quinque-viri appointed to try Barilius and Praetextatus,