biography
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Cassiodorus (Flavius Magnus Aurelius)
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pronunciation:
[kasiohdawrus]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.490–c.580)
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| biography:
| Roman writer and monk, born in Scylaceum (Squillace), Calabria. He was secretary to the Ostrogothic king, Theodoric, quaestor and praetorian prefect, sole consul in 514, and after Theodoric's death (526) chief minister to Queen Amalasontha. His Institutiones is an encyclopedic course of study for the monks of the Vivarium, which he founded and to which he retired. |
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