31/42 [19] [Footnote 19: Dion Cassius (l.liii.p. 703--714) has given a very loose and partial sketch of the Imperial system. To illustrate and often to correct him, I have meditated Tacitus, examined Suetonius, and consulted the following moderns: the Abbe de la Bleterie, in the Memoires de l'Academie des Inscriptions, tom.xix.xxi.xxiv.xxv. Beaufort Republique Romaine, tom.i.p. |