Cassiodorus

American  

[kas-ee-uh-dawr-uhs, -dohr-] / ˌkæs i əˈdɔr əs, -ˈdoʊr- /

noun

1. Flavius Magnus Aurelius, died a.d. 575, Roman statesman and writer.

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Cassiodorus British  

/ ˌkæsɪəʊˈdɔːrəs /

noun

1. Flavius Magnus Aurelius (ˈfleɪvɪəs ˈmæɡnəs ɔːˈriːlɪəs). ?490–?585 _ad , Roman statesman, writer, and monk; author of Variae, a collection of official documents written for the Ostrogoths

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Example Sentences

When he became King of Italy in 493, he relied on Roman aristocrats to administer his kingdom, such as the scholar and writer Cassiodorus and the historian and philosopher Boethius.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Cassiodorus, writing in the 6th century in southern Italy for the guidance of trainee scribes, included punctuation in his Institutions Divinarum et Saecularium Litterarum, recommending “clear pausing in well-regulated delivery”.

From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author

He employed as his chief counsellor Cassiodorus, a great Roman noble of wealth and learning; he issued a code compiled from the Imperial codes; he reduced the taxation.

From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Sedgwick, Henry Dwight

The following passages in Cassiodorus, for which I am indebted to M. Ginguen�, Hist.

From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Hallam, Henry

There are a number of similar myths in Ausonius, Claudian, and Cassiodorus, and in the writings of later ecclesiastical historians, such as Rusinus and Prosper Aquitanus.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William