SOURCE: “The Variae,” in Cassiodorus, University of California Press, 1979, pp. 55-102.
In the following essay, O'Donnell analyzes the compilation, content, and character of Cassiodorus's Variae, arguing that while Cassiodorus extols the virtues of Gothic rule, the work was not intended as a polemical treatise.
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