Note 2098 — Chapter XI · ITALY AND THE PROVINCES UNDER THE PRINCIPATE
Reading edition
Mommsen Staatsr. ii. p. 858; Marquardt Staatsverw. i. p. 358. The earliest known commissioner dates from the time of Trajan. He was “missus in provinciam Achaiam ... ad ordinandum statum liberarum civitatum” (Plin. Ep. viii. 24).