14/54 Theodoric bestowed some important favors on this bishop, whom he used as a counsellor in peace and war.] [Footnote 78: Devotissimus ac si Catholicus, (Anonym.Vales.p. 720;) yet his offering was no more than two silver candlesticks (cerostrata) of the weight of seventy pounds, far inferior to the gold and gems of Constantinople and France, (Anastasius in Vit.Pont.in Hormisda, p. Paris.)] [Footnote 79: The tolerating system of his reign (Ennodius, p. |