[424] 'Pinge vastos humeros vario colore palmatae.'
[425] 'Validam manum victoriali scipione nobilita.'
[426] 'Hic est ambitus qui probatur;' or, 'allowable bribery.'
[427] 'Ipse carpentum reverendus ascendit.' The carpentum was one great mark of the dignity of the Praetorian Praefect, as of his inferior, the Praefectus Urbis.
[428] 'Exhibet enim sine prescriptione longinquos.'
[429] 'Evectiones,' free passes by the Cursus Publicus.
[430] 'Ingressus palatium nostra consuetudine frequenter adoratur.' We know from Lydus (De Mag. ii. 9) that the highest officers of the army knelt at the entrance of the Praetorian Praefect. Perhaps we need not infer from this passage that Oriental prostration was used either towards Theodoric or his Praefect.
[431] 'Et tale officium morem videtur solvere, quod alios potuit accusare.'
[432] 'Vice sacrâ ubique judicat.'
[433] 'Officium plane geniatum, efficax, instructum et totâ animi firmitate praevalidum.'