3 surviving letters between Cassiodorus and People (Public Edict), spanning c. 522–522.
The voice of pain is always a complaint -- the injured cannot keep silent, and a wounded spirit feeds on outcry.
Although a relaxed penalty is quite enough to encourage the betrayal of a crime -- and it is no small gift of...
There are times when a ruler must speak not to individuals but to all his people at once, and this is such a time.