f 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 Praefe