Letter 11025: It is fitting that I promptly grant the promotions that the constant labor of service deserves.
Cassiodorus→Unknown|c. 522 AD|Cassiodorus
imperial politics
From: Senator [Cassiodorus], Praetorian Prefect
To: [Announcement]
Date: ~533-537 AD
Context: Appointment of a chief of the shorthand clerks (exceptores) — the scribes who recorded official proceedings.
It is fitting that I promptly grant the promotions that the constant labor of service deserves. Just as it is right to deny the rewards of hard work to the idle, so it is proper to grant the hoped-for recognition to those who have kept faithful watch. Therefore, let Patricius know that he has been appointed by me as primicerius of the exceptores [chief of the shorthand clerks], so that, having been brought to such an office, he may rejoice that the merits of his service have found favor.
XXV.
DE PRIMICERIO EXCEPTORUM.
[1] Decet nos incunctanter tribuere promotionis ascensus, quos labor militiae meretur assiduus. sicut enim aequum est desidiosis laborantium praemia denegare, ita convenit excubantibus remunerationis optata concedere. et ideo Patricius exceptorum primicerium se a nobis noverit institutum, ut ad tale perductus officium placuisse suarum merita gaudeat actionum.
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From:Senator [Cassiodorus], Praetorian Prefect
To:[Announcement]
Date:~533-537 AD
Context:Appointment of a chief of the shorthand clerks (exceptores) — the scribes who recorded official proceedings.
It is fitting that I promptly grant the promotions that the constant labor of service deserves. Just as it is right to deny the rewards of hard work to the idle, so it is proper to grant the hoped-for recognition to those who have kept faithful watch. Therefore, let Patricius know that he has been appointed by me as primicerius of the exceptores [chief of the shorthand clerks], so that, having been brought to such an office, he may rejoice that the merits of his service have found favor.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.