[1717] Plut. Galba 8.
[1718] Tac. Hist. iii. 68.
[1719] Plin. Paneg. 77 “comitia consulum obibat ipse (Trajanus); tantum ex renuntiatione eorum voluptatis quantum prius ex destinatione capiebat.... Adibat aliquis ut principem; respondebat se consulem esse.”
[1720] On the consuls was laid the burden of certain newly-established festivals such as those celebrating the Natalia of Augustus and the victory of Actium (Dio Cass. lvi 46; lix. 20).
[1721] See Mommsen Staatsr. ii pp. 84-87. The climax was reached with twenty-five consulships in a single year (189 A.D.) under Commodus (Dio Cass. lxxii. 12; Vita Commodi 6).
[1722] Vita Alexandri 43.
[1723] Pompon. in Dig. 1, 2, 2, 32.
[1724] Marini Atti Arvali p. 784.
[1725] Dio Cassius, lii. cc. 20, 21 (speech of Maecenas), may mean to imply their existence in his own time. Geib (Criminalprocess pp. 392-397) assigns their disappearance to the end of the first century.
[1726] Pompon. in Dig. 1, 2, 2, 32 “divus Claudius duos praetores adjecit qui de fidei commisso jus dicerent, ex quibus unum divus Titus detraxit: et adjecit divus Nerva qui inter fiscum et privatos jus diceret.”