tit.xxvii.leg.

i.] [Footnote 102: For this, and the other dignities of the empire, it may be sufficient to refer to the ample commentaries of Pancirolus and Godefroy, who have diligently collected and accurately digested in their proper order all the legal and historical materials.

From those authors, Dr.Howell (History of the World, vol.ii.p.

24-77) has deduced a very distinct abridgment of the state of the Roman empire] From their superior importance and dignity, Rome and Constantinople were alone excepted from the jurisdiction of the Praetorian praefects.

The immense size of the city, and the experience of the tardy, ineffectual operation of the laws, had furnished the policy of Augustus with a specious pretence for introducing a new magistrate, who alone could restrain a servile and turbulent populace by the strong arm of arbitrary power.