203 and Casaubon Comment., p.

220) that Vespasian created at once a thousand Patrician families.

But this extravagant number is too much even for the whole Senatorial order.
unless we should include all the Roman knights who were distinguished by the permission of wearing the laticlave.] [Footnote 98: Zosimus, l.ii.p.

118; and Godefroy ad Cod.Theodos.

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vi.tit.