Cassiodorus
Roman statesman turned monk and scholar. Author of the Institutiones (Divine Readings), in which he strove to establish a Christian school at Rome modeled on Alexandria and Nisibis.
Works
Preface and Praise of Sacred Scripture
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Chapter IV: The Judgments and Examples of the Fathers
— In preface to Divine Readings, says he strove with Agapetus to establish a Christian school at Rome modeled on Alexandria and Nisibis
"as Cassiodorus narrates in the preface to his book of Divine Readings"
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The Author's Method (paragraph 48)
— Attributed: "Where Origen is good, no one is better; where bad, no one is worse"
"So Cassiodorus."