[1707] The consular insignia were granted to Nymphidius and to Crispinus under Nero (Tac. Ann. xv. 72; xvi. 17); the praetorian insignia to Sejanus and to Macro under Tiberius (Dio Cass. lvii. 19; lviii. 12).
[1708] Quaestorian insignia were granted to Laco under Tiberius (Dio Cass. lviii. 12).
[1709] Tac. Ann. xii. 21 “consularia insignia Ciloni (procurator of Pontus) ... decernuntur”; Suet. Claud. 24 “ornamenta consularia etiam procuratoribus ducenariis indulsit.”
[1710] As the praetorian insignia to Pallas, the quaestorian to Narcissus (Tac. Ann. xii. 53; xi. 38). Cf. Suet. Claud. 28.
[1711] Suet. Aug. 35 (Augustus) “quosdam ad excusandi se verecundiam compulit: servavitque etiam excusatis insigne vestis et spectandi in orchestra epulandique publice jus.”
[1712] p. 156.
[1713] In an exceptional case, such as Junius Blaesus’ command in Africa, the proconsul might be saluted imperator on the permission of the Princeps (Tac. Ann. iii. 74), and the first condition of a triumph be fulfilled. But this incident, dating from A.D. 22, was the last of its kind on record.
[1714] Suet. Aug. 38 “super triginta ducibus justos triumphos et aliquanto pluribus triumphalia ornamenta decernenda curavit”; Wilmanns n. 1145 l. 19 “senatus ... triumphalibus ornamentis honoravit auctore imp. Caesare Augusto Vespasiano”; Index p. 609.
[1715] Dio Cass. lix. 9. The obligation to swear in acta Caesaris had, with reference to the acts of the first Caesar, begun in 45 B.C. (App. B.C. ii. 106), and had been renewed during the triumvirate (Dio Cass. xlvii. 18), the formula running se nihil contra acta Caesaris facturum. For the obligation as continued in the Principate cf. p. 363.
[1716] Herodian (ii. 12), with reference to the downfall of Didius Julianus, speaks of the consuls οἷ τὰ τῆς Ῥώμης διοικεῖν εἰώθασιν ὁπηνίκα ἂν τὰ τῆς βασιλείας μετέωρα ᾗ.