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Cassiodorus.

Very little of Cassiodorus is freely available in English. A few French translations are included here for those who read French better than Latin.


Latin Texts.

M. Aurelii Cassiodori Senatoris v.c. Opera omnia quae exstant
ex fide manuscr. auctiora & locupletiora. Collatis etiam exemplaribus tam veteribus, quàm recèns editis. Cum indice rerum et sententiarum scitu notatúque digniorum, Pagina sequens quae hoc toto volumine contineantur vice indicis designabit. Aureliæ Allobrogum, Sumptibus Petri, & Iacobi Chouët, 1609.

M. Aurelii Cassiodori Senatoris V. C. Opera Omnia quæ extant. Collatis etiam exemplaribus tam veteribus, quam recens editis: cum indice rerum et sententiarum scitu notatúque digniorum. Coloniæ Allobrogum: Apud Philippum Gamonet, 1637.

Magni Aurelii Cassiodori Senatoris, Viri Patricii, Consularis, et Vivariensis Abbatis Opera Omnia, ad fidem manuscriptoum codicum emendata et aucta…opera et studio J. Garetii. Præcedunt Vigilii Papæ, Gildæ Sapientis et Pelagii papæ Scripta Universa. Paris: J.-P. Migne, 1865.

Vol. I

Vol. II.

Historia Tripertita. Habes candidissime lector Historiam tripertitam Cassiodori senatoris viri dei de regimine ecclesie primitiue: que antea quam plurimis scatebat erroribus adamussim emendatam pristineque integritati restitutam. Veneunt Lugduni apud Jacobii Giuncti, 1534.
1526 edition.
Another copy.

Cassiodori clarissimi Senatoris Romani doctissima et religiosissima Psalterij dauidici expositio quam plurima enucleans, que vel idioma aliquod diuino eloquio proprium, vel dogma singulare, vel diffinitionem, vel schema, vel etymologiam, vel interpretationem, vel rhetoricum, logicum, Arithmeticum, Geometricum, Musicum, aut astronomicum aliquid contineant. Parisius solerti cura noviter impressa. Jehan Petit (Johannes Parvus), 1519.

Magni Aureli Cassiodori Senatorus V. C. de Orthographia liber, edente & emendante Ludovico Carrione Brugense. Antverpiæ: Ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1579.

Cassiodori Senatoris Variae. Recensuit Theodorus Mommsen. Accedunt Epustulae Theodericianae variae; Acta Synodorum Habituarum Romae A. CCCCXCVIIII. DI. DII.; Cassiodori Orationum Reliquiae. Berolini: Apud Weidmannos, 1894.
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French Translations.

L’Histoire ecclésiastiqve nommée tripartite, divisé en douze liures… Nouvellement traduicte de Latin en François, par Loys Cyaneus. Paris : Gilles Gorbin, 1568.

L’Histoire ecclesiastique, nommée tripartite, diuisee en douze liures…De nouueau corrigé & mis en meilleur François qu’auparauant, par deux Docteurs en la Faculté de Theologie à Paris. Paris : Ambroise Drovard, 1587. —A quick glance suggests that the French is “better” because more Latinate than that of the translation above.

Cassiodore : De l’Ame. Traduction française de Stéphane de Rouville. Paris : Roquette, 1874.


English Translations.

The Letters of Cassiodorus, being a condensed translation of the Variae Epistolae of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator. With an introduction, By Thomas Hodgkin. London: Henry Frowde, 1886. —“It will be seen that I only profess to give an abstract, not a full translation of the letters. There is so much repetition and such a lavish expenditure of words in the writings of Cassiodorus, that they lend themselves very readily to the work of the abbreviator. Of course the longer letters generally admit of greater relative reduction in quantity than the shorter ones, but I think it may be said that on an average the letters have lost at least half their bulk in my hands. On any important point the real student will of course refuse to accept my condensed rendering, and will go straight to the fountainhead. I hope, however, that even students may occasionally derive the same kind of assistance from my labours which an astronomer derives from the humble instrument called the ‘finder’ in a great observatory.”
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