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DECORAT, fl. sixth century A.D., was an advocate at Rome. Cassiodorus's letter for Theodoric expresses regret at his death and promotes his brother, Honoratus, to the quaestorship, Epistola V.3-4.

Lady Philosophy calls Decorat an informer, Bo III, Prosa 4. 23-26. [Albyn: Basilius: Boece: Cassidore: Conigaste: Gaudenicus: Opilion: Trygwille]

Decorat, the contraction of Latin Decoratus, appears in Jean de Meun's translation Li Livres de confort de philosophie.

Flavius Cassiodorus, Epistolae Theodoricianae Variae, ed. Th. Mommsen, 144-145; V.L. Dedeck-Héry, "Boethius' De Consolatione by Jean de Meun." MS 14 (1952), 211.
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