Cassiodorus (Cassiodo`rus) , a Latin statesman and historian, born in Calabria; prime minister of Theodoric the Great and his successor; retired into a monastery about 70, and lived there nearly 30 years; wrote a history of the Goths, and left letters of great historical value (468‒568).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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