Note 2014 — Chapter X · THE PRINCIPATE (continued 2)
Reading edition
Tac. Hist. i. 58 “Vitellius ministeria principatus per libertos agi solita in equites Romanos disponit.” In Otho’s reign we find a mention of Secundus the rhetor ἐπὶ τῶν ἐπιστολῶν γενόμενος (Plut. Otho 9).