v.leg.

2.] [Footnote 75: Consult the Notitia Dignitatum at the end of the Theodosian code, tom.vi.p.316.

* Note: Constantin, qui remplaca le grand Patriciat par une noblesse titree et qui changea avec d'autres institutions la nature de la societe Latine, est le veritable fondateur de la royaute moderne, dans ce quelle conserva de Romain.

Chateaubriand, Etud.Histor.Preface, i.151.Manso, (Leben Constantins des Grossen,) p.

153, &c., has given a lucid view of the dignities and duties of the officers in the Imperial court .-- M.] [Footnote 76: Pancirolus ad Notitiam utriusque Imperii, p.39.But his explanations are obscure, and he does not sufficiently distinguish the painted emblems from the effective ensigns of office.] All the magistrates of sufficient importance to find a place in the general state of the empire, were accurately divided into three classes.
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