Within the previous context of his discussion of power and its destructive force under bad rulers such as
Theoderic and Nero, the Anglo-Saxon translator clearly intends ofermod to describe Tarquin's and the consuls' prideful misuses of power.
who were behind the advances that the Visigothic king
Theoderic II (453-456).
In the church of San Vitale there is a mosaic of Justinian and his court: the likeness between
Theoderic and Justinian is striking, even down to the imperial diadem.
An important source for the social, political, and institutional history of
Theoderic's rule in Italy is the Variae of the Roman statesman Cassiodorus, a collection in twelve books of 468 letters, proclamations, formulae for appointments, and edicts related to the Ostrogothic administration.
One king,
Theoderic (471-526), wanted larger, more secure territories tot his people, while the other, Strabo, aimed at a top Roman command and a seat at the centre of government.
Martyr-saints, a scant handful, perform miracles unrelated to their passions.(14) The closest we come to anything grim is an ancient legend out of the Dialogues of Gregory the Great - the consignment to hell of
Theoderic the Ostrogoth by Pope John I and the patrician Symmachus (whose deaths
Theoderic had caused) - but the depiction makes no attempt to inspire horror; hell is barely suggested in a pageant of damnation.(15) What the vault scenes show is history as the Creator wished it to be, and as, by His intervention, it sometimes was.
The sophisticated constitutional scheme defined by
Theoderic and his Roman administrators--itself an elaboration of the conception underlying the old arrangements for the settlement of barbarian foederati on Roman territory--was of its nature a fragile framework for the coexistence of the two peoples.
The two most detailed descriptions of acceptable gaming on the part of a ruler are from late antiquity: Agathias' poem on the table game of the emperor Zeno and Sidonius' letter describing the terrifying experience of playing alea with
Theoderic, king of the Visigoths.
(12) Thidrekssaga af Bern is a collection of stories about
Theoderic the Great (454-526) in Old Icelandic and Old Swedish, dating from the 13th and 15th centuries.
22), reconstituted from wrappers and representative of a multivolume passional from Christ Church, contains additions by the Dutch scribe
Theoderic Werken, who worked for the cathedral in the 1470s.
(22)
Theoderic oli vaieldamatult parim Liivimaa olude tundja.
Cassiodorus, for example, acting as administrator-adviser to
Theoderic, found the newly constructed traps and weirs of the private fishermen to be "immoral" and "egotistical" intrusions into the public weal, and he succeeded in having them removed.