Letter 1033: VARIAE, BOOK 1, LETTER 33

[1] Our serenity's judgment, once pronounced, does not waver, nor does it change through anyone's scheming what it has established by careful planning. We recall that we recently issued orders to the patricians Albinus and Avienus to select a pantomime for the Green faction who would be best suited for the spectacles, and they reported back to us that they had done so. [2] Therefore by this present authority we decree that whoever was found to have been chosen by the aforementioned men shall receive the customary monthly salary of the Green faction from you without any reduction, so that what our foresight established to prevent disorder may become an occasion of peace, not sedition.

XXXIII. AGAPITO V. I. P. U. THEODERICUS REX. [1] Nescit serenitatis nostrae prolatum semel titubare iudicium: nec quod provida dispositione constituit, cuiusquam occasionis surreptione mutavit. dudum siquidem ad Albinum atque Avienum patricios viros praecepta nos dedisse retinemus, ut pantomimum prasini partis eligerent, qui praestantius spectaculis conveniret: quod nobis factum sua relatione reserarunt. [2] Et ideo nunc praesenti auctoritate decernimus, ut, quem a supra memoratis magnificis viris electum esse constiterit, ei solitum menstruum partis prasini sine imminutione tribuatis, ut, quod nostra provisio confusionis tollendae causa constituit, non fiat seditionis occasio, sed quietis.