dentes Qui secti ferro in tabulas auroque micantes, Inscripti rutilum coelato Consule nomen Per proceres et vulgus eant.
-- Claud.

in ii.Cons.Stilichon.

456.
Montfaucon has represented some of these tablets or dypticks see Supplement a l'Antiquite expliquee, tom.iii.p.

220.] [Footnote 84: Consule laetatur post plurima seculo viso Pallanteus apex: agnoscunt rostra curules Auditas quondam proavis: desuetaque cingit Regius auratis Fora fascibus Ulpia lictor.
-- Claud.

in vi.Cons.Honorii, 643.
From the reign of Carus to the sixth consulship of Honorius, there was an interval of one hundred and twenty years, during which the emperors were always absent from Rome on the first day of January.