[150] iii. 17 (p. 210).
[152] This seems to be Bethmann Hollweg's view (p. 181).
[153] This we learn from iii. 20. They are not mentioned in iii. 4, where we should have expected to find them.
[154] 'εξ ανδρες εραστοι και νουνεχεστατοι και σφριγωντες ετι (Lydus iii. 20).
[155] 'ρεγεστων η κοττιδιανων (αντι του εφημερων).
[156] Ιταλιστι. Of course the emphasis laid on this point proceeds from the Greek nationality of our present authority.
[157] σαβανον = a towel.
[158] Except, as before stated, those in the office of the Praetorian Praefect for Illyricum. These were four in number, and one of them had charge of 'gold,' another of '[public] works.' Further information is requisite to enable us to explain these entries.
[159] They are alluded to in Var. [xii. 13]. The Canonicarii (Tax-collectors) had plundered the Churches of Bruttii and Lucania in the name of 'sedis nostrae Numerarii;' but the Numerarii with holy horror declared that they had received no part of the spoils.