Note 1868 — Chapter X · THE PRINCIPATE
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This power was employed by Augustus (Suet. Aug. 32 “Diuturnorum reorum ... nomina abolevit”), Gaius (Suet. Calig. 15 “criminum ... si quae residua ex priore tempore manebant, omnium gratiam fecit”; cf. Dio Cass. lix. 6), Vespasian (Dio Cass. lxvi. 9), and Domitian (Suet. Dom. 9).