solitude, viii. 31;
orderly evolutions of cranes, ix. 2.

Bishops, King Witigis' exhortations to, x. 34;
Cassiodorus' exhortations to, xi. 4.

Blue party in the Circus, rivalry of, with the Greens, iii. 51.

Bodily signs by which character may be discerned, vi. 9 (_compare_
also Cassiodorus, 'De Anima,' capp. 10 and 11, referred to p. 53).

Boethius (or Boetius), Illustris and Patrician,
receives orders to choose a harper to be sent to Clovis, 23, 24;
ii. 40;
information as to his life in the 'Anecdoton Holderi,' 74, 79-84;
really author of the theological treatises which have passed current
with his name, 74, 80-83;
and of a 'Bucolic Poem,' 74, 83;
difficulty caused by the non-Christian character of his 'Consolations
of Philosophy,' 81, 83;
consulted as to depreciation of currency, i. 10;
ordered to prepare water-clock and sundial for King of Burgundians,
i. 45.

Boethius, as to character of Basilius, 246 _n_;
as to character of Decoratus, 267 _n_;
character of his accuser Cyprian, v. 40, 41; viii. 21, 22;
character of Opilio, viii. 17.

Boethus, Bishop of Byzacene Province in Africa, author, according to
M. Jourdain, of the theological treatises attributed to Boethius, 82.

Bormiae Aquae (_Baths of Bormio_), Count Winusiad recommended to
visit, x. 29.

Brandila, husband of Procula, story of his intrigue with Regina, wife
of Patzenes, v. 32, 33.

Breones, a Raetian freebooting tribe living near the Brenner pass, i.
11.

Bribery repressed, xii. 2, 6, 21, 26.

Bridge of boats ordered to be built across the Tiber, xii. 19.

Brosse, Pierre, notes of, on Cassiodorus, 117.

Bruttii and Lucania, Venantius Corrector of, iii. 8, 46, 47;
his misgovernment of, 221;
the praises of, viii. 31; xii. 15;
'opulenti Bruttii,' viii. 33;
gold-mining to be commenced in, ix. 3;
abundance of cattle in, ii. 39;
measures for relief of, during presence of Gothic army, xii. 5;
praise of the wine of, xii. 12;
Canonicarii of, rebuked for despoiling the churches, xii. 13.

Buat, Count, on the life and ancestry of Cassiodorus, 118;
as to Theodora's share in the murder of Amalasuentha, 433 _n_.

Burgundians, King of (_see_ Gundibad);
cease to be 'Gentiles' under Gundibad, i. 46;
boundary of, with Ostrogothic kingdom, iii. 41;
dispute with Franks, viii. 10;
league with Amalasuentha, xi. 1 (_see_ 456 _n_);
invasion of Liguria and Aemilia, xii. 28; 527.