[2157] Plut. Galba 4.
[2158] Dio Cass. liii. 13; Tac. Ann. i. 80.
[2159] Dio Cass. liii. 23
[2160] Wilmanns 1267; procurator vices agens legati (ib. 1622 a). The title procurator et praeses was also applied to them. The procurator vice praesidis was an ordinary procurator holding an interim command for the regular governor of a province (Wilmanns Index p. 568).
[2161] See p. 428; and cf. Tac. Hist. i. 11.
[2162] Josephus Antiq. Jud. xviii. 4, 2.
[2163] Leg. pro pr. exercitus Germanici superioris, legato pro pr. Germaniae super(ioris) et exercitus in ea tendentis (Wilmanns 867, 1186). Cf. Tac. Ann. vi. 30 “Gaetulicus ea tempestate superioris Germaniae legiones curabat.”
[2164] Tac. Ann. i. 31.
[2165] Tac. Hist. i. 11 “Aegyptum copiasque, quibus coerceretur, jam inde a divo Augusto equites Romani obtinent loco regum: ita visum expedire provinciam aditu difficilem, annonae fecundam ... domi retinere.”
[2166] Tac. Ann. ii. 59 “Augustus ... vetitis nisi permissu ingredi senatoribus aut equitibus Romanis illustribus, seposuit Aegyptum, ne fame urgueret Italiam, quisquis eam provinciam claustraque terrae ac maris ... insedisset.”