Note 2024 — Chapter X · THE PRINCIPATE (continued 2)
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Suet. Claud. 12 “ut ... rata essent, quae procuratores sui in judicando statuerent, precario exegit” (from the Senate). Tacitus exaggerates the nature of the change when he says that “Claudius libertos, quos rei familiari praefecerat, sibique et legibus adaequaverit” (Ann. xii. 60).