Note 1699 — Chapter X · THE PRINCIPATE
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Dio Cass. l.c. Dispensations from these rules might be given by the Senate, in accordance with the jus liberorum (“ut singuli anni per singulos liberos remittantur” Dig. 4, 4, 2), or to members of the imperial house (Tac. Ann. iii. 29 “Per idem tempus (A.D. 20) Neronem e liberis Germanici jam ingressum juventam (Tiberius) commendavit patribus, utque munere capessendi vigintiviratus solveretur et quinquennio maturius quam per leges quaesturam peteret ... postulavit”).