Letter 6025: VARIAE, BOOK 6, FORMULA 25

XXV. FORMULA (CONCERNING THE COUNT) OF THE COMMANDER OF THE SOLDIERS [comes principis militum], REGARDING THE COUNTSHIP DESCRIBED ABOVE. [1] It is fitting that all bodies of officials have their own judges: for he from whom a presiding officer is taken away is also denied his military service [militia]. But we, whose concern it is to keep all the ranks in their proper places, make known to him that, with the Lord's help, we have bestowed the Neapolitan countship, so that, with the judges renewed by yearly succession, the regular conduct of your office may not perish. Therefore render fitting obedience to the man who has been appointed, so that, just as we do not allow you to lose the benefits of your emoluments, so you too ought to preserve the ancient rule of compliance. Cassiodorus

XXV. FORMULA (DE COMITE) PRINCIPIS MILITUM DE COMITIVA SUPRA SCRIPTA. [1] Omnes apparitiones habere decet iudices suos: nam cui praesul adimitur, et militia denegatur. sed nos, quibus cordi est locis suis universos ordines continere, indicamus illi comitivam Neapolitanam domino iuvante largitos, ut iudicibus annua successione reparatis vobis sollemnitas non pereat actionis. quapropter designato viro praestate competenter obsequium, ut sicut vos non patimur emolumentorum commoda perdere, ita et vos parendi debeatis priscam regulam custodire. Cassiodorus