[2097] Suet. Aug. 47, Claud. 25, Vesp. 8.
[2098] Mommsen Staatsr. ii. p. 858; Marquardt Staatsverw. i. p. 358. The earliest known commissioner dates from the time of Trajan. He was “missus in provinciam Achaiam ... ad ordinandum statum liberarum civitatum” (Plin. Ep. viii. 24).
[2099] Tac. Ann. ii. 47.
[2100] Strabo xiii. p. 621; Cic. pro Flacco 29, 71.
[2101] Tac. Ann. xii. 63.
[2102] Mommsen Staatsr. iii. p. 684.
[2103] Mommsen points out (ib. p. 685) that, if it did, Spain after the time of Vespasian would have paid no taxes.
[2104] C.I.L. iii. n. 781.
[2105] Dig. 27, 1, 17; cf. Suet. Claud. 25.
[2106] Dig. 50, 15, 8, 5 “Divus Antoninus Antiochenses colonos fecit salvis tributis.”