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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER III: The Constitution In The Age Of The Antonines
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Cassius, l.liii.p.710, with the curious Annotations of Reimar.] [Footnote 251: The princes who by their birth or their adoption belonged to the family of the Caesars, took the name of Caesar.

After the death of Nero, this name designated the Imperial dignity itself, and afterwards the appointed successor.

The time at which it was employed in the latter sense, cannot be fixed with certainty.

Bach (Hist.

Jurisprud.
Rom.


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