Note 99 — Chapter IX · THE EUPHRATES FRONTIER AND THE PARTHIANS. (continued 2)
William P. (William Purdie) Dickson translation
He was, according to the most trustworthy account, procurator summarum (ἐπὶ τῶν καθόλου λόγων βασιλέως: Dionysius in Eusebius, H. E. vii. 10, 5), and so finance-minister with equestrian rank; the continuator of Dio (fr. 3 Müll.) expresses this in the language of the later age by κόμης τῶν θησαυρῶν καὶ ἐφεστὼς τῇ ἀγορᾷ τοῦ σίτου.