esent chronology, a colleague of
Cassiodorus in his literary enterprises, 64.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chief authority on the Roman
chariot-races, 230.

Discussores, assessors of taxes, iv. 38.

Documents not to be tampered with by the Scribe, xii. 21.

Domestici, life-guardsmen attached to the Provincial Governors, to
receive larger pay, ix. 13.

Domitian, office of Master of the Horse abolished by, 99.

Domitius, Spectabilis, has received a concession for drainage of land
which he is too parsimonious to take full advantage of, ii. 21;
complains of seizure of his estates by Theodahad, iv. 39.

Domus Palmata, near the Forum, iv. 30.

Donativum, _see_ Largesse.

Drainage concession to Spes and Domitius, ii. 21.

Drill, need of, exemplified, i. 40.

Dromonarii, rowers in express boats, ii. 31;
twenty-one dead, iv. 15.

Dromones, express boats, one thousand to be built, v. 16.

Druentia (_Durance_), River,
frontier of Ostrogothic and Burgundian Monarchies, 218;
provisions for garrisons upon, iii. 41.

Dux, a military officer of the rank of Spectabilis, his relation to
the Comes, 90 _n_.

DUX RAETIARUM, FORMULA OF, vii. 4.

E.

Eastern Empire, Amalasuentha's relations with, xi. 1.

Ecclesiastical privileges and immunities, i. 9, 26; ii. 29, 30;
iii. 14, 37, 45; iv. 17, 20; viii. 24; ix. 15, 16; x. 26, 34;
xii. 13, 20;
conflict between Ecclesiastical and Curial obligations, ii. 18.

Ecdicius, sons of, allowed to leave Rome to bury their father, ii. 22.

Edictum Athalarici, ix. 2, 18, 19, 20.

Edictum Theodorici,
published by Nivellius, from a MS. belonging to Pithou, 116;
punishment for adulterers according to, 283, 403;
permission to parents to sell their children, 382 _n_.

Egregii, fifth rank in Imperial service, 92;
not mentioned by Cassiodorus, 92.

Elephant, natural history of the, x. 30;
brazen images of, in Via Sacra, x. 30.

Eloquence the special product of Rome--'Aliae regiones vina, balsama
et olentia thura transmittant: Roma tradit eloquium, quo suavius nil
sit auditum,' x. 7.

Endive of Bruttii has not the bitter fibres spoken of by Virgil, xii.
14.

Ennodius, Magnus Felix, Bishop of Ticinum (died 516),
information given by, as to Boethius, 79 _n_;
information as to Alamannic refugees, 195;
his testimony to character of Decoratus, 267 _n_;
addressed his 'Paraenesis' to Ambrosius, 358.

Epiphanius employed by Cassiodorus to assist