[2057] Hirschfeld Verwaltungsgesch. i. p. 215. Probably only the equestrian members of this board received salaries (Mommsen Staatsr. ii. p. 990).
[2058] Cf. Vita Hadr. 8 “erat ... tunc mos, ut, cum princeps causas agnosceret, et senatores et equites Romanos in consilium vocaret et sententiam ex omnium deliberatione proferret.”
[2059] e.g. “centenario consiliario Aug(usti) ... juris perito” (Wilmanns 1286).
[2060] p. 380.
[2061] Vita Alex. 16 “neque ullam constitutionem sacravit sine viginti jurisperitis et doctissimis ac sapientibus viris isdemque disertissimis non minus quinquaginta.”
[2062] In Maecenas’ supposed advice to Augustus, which in this, as in other respects, probably reflects the practice of the time of Dio Cassius, it is said of the consilium ἄλλοι ἄλλοτε διαγινωσκέτωσαν (Dio Cass. lii. 33).
[2063] Suet. Aug. 33.
[2064] Suet. Nero 15.
[2065] Vita Alex. 16 “ut iretur per sententias singulorum ac scriberetur quid quisque dixisset.”
[2066] p. 410.