9/43 25.) See the use Tiberius made of the Senate in the mutiny of the Pannonian legions, (Tacit.Annal. i.)] [Footnote 30: These words seem to have been the constitutional language. * Note: This panegyric on the soldiery is rather too liberal. Claudius was obliged to purchase their consent to his coronation: the presents which he made, and those which the praetorians received on other occasions, considerably embarrassed the finances. Moreover, this formidable guard favored, in general, the cruelties of the tyrants. |