Note 1617 — Chapter X · THE PRINCIPATE
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Tac. Ann. xi. 25 “Isdem diebus in numerum patriciorum adscivit Caesar (Claudius as censor) vetustissimum quemque e senatu aut quibus clari parentes fuerant ... exhaustis etiam quas (familias) dictator Caesar lege Cassia et princeps Augustus lege Saenia sublegere.” Cf. Suet. Otho 1; and for Vespasian’s censorship Vita Marci 1 “Annius Verus ... adscitus in patricios ... a Vespasiano et Tito censoribus.”