[1637] Dio Cass, liii. 17. In the decrees to Maximus and Balbinus the pontificatus maximus is mentioned (Vita 8), and it is possible that it was held by both these emperors conjointly.
[1638] Zosimus iv. 36.
[1639] Suet. Dom. 8 “Incesta Vestalium virginum ... varie ac severe coercuit: priora capitali supplicio; posteriora, more veteri.”
[1640] Ulpian in Dig. 11, 7, 8.
[1641] Dio Cass. liii. 17; Tac. Hist. i. 77 “Otho pontificatus auguratusque honoratis jam senibus cumulum dignitatis addidit”; Plin. ad Traj. 13 (8) “rogo dignitati, ad quam me provexit indulgentia tua, vel auguratum vel septemviratum, quia vacent, adicere digneris.”
[1642] Cic. ad Att. viii. 9, 4 “nihil malle Caesarem quam principe Pompeio sine metu vivere”; ad Fam. vi. 6, 5 “esset hic quidem (Caesar) clarus in toga et princeps.” Cf. Vell. ii. 124 “una tamen veluti luctatio civitatis fuit, pugnantis cum (Tiberio) Caesare senatus populique Romani, ut stationi paternae succederet, illius, ut potius aequalem civem quam eminentem liceret agere principem.”
[1643] Tac. Ann. iii. 53 (Tiberius says) “non aedilis aut praetoris aut consulis partes sustineo, majus aliquid et excelsius a principe postulatur.”
[1644] Dio Cass. lvii. 8 (see note 5); Ovid Fasti ii. 142 “Tu (Romule) domini nomen, principis ille (Augustus) tenet.”
[1645] Suet. Aug. 53.
[1646] Dio Cass. lvii. 8 δεσπότης μὲν τῶν δούλων, αὐτοκράτωρ δὲ τῶν στρατιωτῶν, τῶν δὲ δὴ λοιπῶν πρόκριτός εἰμι. Cf. Tac. Ann. ii. 87.