Res Gestae

After this the king began from time to time, when he found an opportunity, to vent his rage upon the Romans. Cyprianus, who was then a referee,[*](See Index II, Vol. I.) afterwards count of the privy purse and a master,[*](Perhaps magister mititm. ) was led by avarice to make a charge against the patrician Albinus, to the effect that he had sent to the emperor Justinus a letter hostile to Theodoric’s rule. When Albinus was summoned

and denied this, the patrician Boethius, who was master of ceremonies, said in the king’s presence: The charge of Cyprianus is false, but if Albinus did that, so also have I and the whole senate with one accord done it; it is false, my Lord King.