and your property, and that you may be preserved from future
molestation, founded on the old sentence against you, we assign you to
the guardianship (tuitio) of the Patrician Albinus, without prejudice
to the laws (salvis legibus).

'We wish that nothing contrary to _civilitas_ should be done, since
our daily labour is for the repose of all.' [I presume that this
letter is in fact an edict for 'Restitutio in integrum.']

42. KING THEODORIC TO ARGOLICUS, PRAEFECT OF THE CITY.

[Sidenote: The sons of Velusian to have their property restored to
them.]

'Under a good King the loss even of a father should be less felt than
with a different ruler, for the King is the father of his people.

'The petition of Marcian and Maximius, sons of Velusian (Patrician and
Magnificus), sets forth that they lost their father at Easter; that
thus the time of joy to all Christians became to them a season of
sorrow; that while they were immersed in their grief and incapable of
attending to their affairs, "the tower of the circus and the place of
the amphitheatre[354]," which had belonged to their illustrious
father, were by some heartless intriguer wrested from them, under the
authority of the Praefect.

[Footnote 354: Can this be the Amphitheatrum Castrense?]

'Be pleased to enquire into this matter, and if those places truly
belonged to Velusian, restore them to his sons. We wish to cherish
rather than oppress the sons of illustrious men, who are the germ of
our future Senate.'

43. KING THEODORIC TO THE SENATE OF THE CITY OF ROME.

[Sidenote: Punishment of incendiaries who have burned a Jewish
Synagogue.]

[On the burning of the Jewish synagogue. This synagogue of the Jews
was in the Trastevere. See Gregorovius i. 296-298 for a description of
it. I do not know on what authority he assigns 521 for the date of
the tumult in which it was burned.]

'The propriety of manners which is characteristic of the City of Rome
must be upheld. To fall into the follies of popular tumult, and to set
about burning their own City, is not like the Roman disposition[355].

[Footnote 355: 'Levitates quippe seditionum et ambire propriae
civitatis incendium, non est velle Romanum.']

'But we are informed by Count Arigern[356] that the populace of Rome,
enraged at the punishment inflicted on some Christian servants who had
murdered their Jewish masters, has risen in fury and burned their
synagogue to the ground[357], idly venting on innocent b