Note 1627 — Chapter X · THE PRINCIPATE
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Tac. Ann. i. 81 “plerumque eos tantum apud se professos disseruit, quorum nomina consulibus edidisset: posse et alios profiteri, si gratiae aut meritis confiderent.” It may have been a person so appointed who inaccurately describes himself as “per commendation(em) Ti. Caesaris Augusti ab senatu co(n)s(ul) dest(inatus)” (Inscr. Reg. Neap. n. 4762; C.I.L., ix. n. 2342).