i.) I have not mentioned the Aediles or Quaestors Officers of the police or revenue easily adapt themselves to any form of government.

In the time of Nero, the tribunes legally possessed the right of intercession, though it might be dangerous to exercise it (Tacit.Annal.xvi.

26.) In the time of Trajan, it was doubtful whether the tribuneship was an office or a name, (Plin.Epist.i.

23.)] [Footnote 16: The tyrants themselves were ambitious of the consulship.
The virtuous princes were moderate in the pursuit, and exact in the discharge of it.

Trajan revived the ancient oath, and swore before the consul's tribunal that he would observe the laws, (Plin.