352
10. " SENATE. Same subject 354
11. TULUM'S ADDRESS TO SENATE. Elevation to the Patriciate 356
12. TO ARATOR. Promotion to Count of the Domestics 357
13. " AMBROSIUS. Appointment to Quaestorship 358
14. " SENATE. Same subject 359
15. " " Election of Pope Felix III (or IV) 360
16. " OPILIO. Appointment as Count of the Sacred Largesses 361
17. " SENATE. Same subject 363
18. " FELIX. Promotion to Quaestorship 365
19. " SENATE. Same subject 366
20. " ALBIENUS. Appointment as Praetorian Praefect 367
21. " CYPRIAN. }
22. " SENATE. } Elevation to the Patriciate 368
23. " BERGANTINUS. Gifts to Theodahad 370
24. " CLERGY OF THE ROMAN CHURCH. Ecclesiastical immunities 371
25. " JOANNES. Confirmation of Tulum's gift of property 373
26. " INHABITANTS OF REATE AND NURSIA. To obey their Prior 374
27. " DUMERIT AND FLORENTINUS. To suppress robbery at Faventia 375
28. " CUNIGAST. Enforced slavery of Possessores (or Coloni?) 376
29. " THE DIGNIFIED CULTIVATORS AND CURIALS OF PARMA. Necessity
for sanitary measures 377
30. " GENESIUS. Same subject 377
31. " SEVERUS. Dissuasions from a country life, and praises of Bruttii 378
32. " " Fountain of Arethusa 380
33. " " Feast of St. Cyprian 381

BOOK IX.

CONTAINING TWENTY-FIVE LETTERS, WRITTEN IN THE NAME OF ATHALARIC THE
KING.

1. TO HILDERIC. Murder of Amalafrida 384
2. EDICT. Oppression of the Curiales 385
3. TO BERGANTINUS. Gold-mining in Italy 387
4. " ABUNDANTIUS. Curiales to become Possessores 388
5. " CERTAIN BISHOPS AND FUNCTIONARIES. Forestalling and regrating
prohibited 389
6. " A CERTAIN PRIMISCRINIUS. Leave to visit Baiae 389
7. " REPAR