[434] 'Humanitates quoque judicibus ipsis facit.'
[435] 'Legatos gentium voraces explet ordinationibus suis.' Voraces seems to give a better sense than the other reading, veraces.
[436] 'Quamvis in illa contineantur universa.'
[437] 'Carpento veheris per nobilem plebem.'
[438] i.e. probably, 'that you are not bribed by monopolists.' Perhaps there is a reference to the Annona Publica.
[439] 'Tanta est enim vis gloriosae veritatis, ut etiam in rebus scenicis aequitas desideretur.'
[440] According to Lydus (ii. 10), the Cursus Publicus was transferred from the Praefect to the Master, and afterwards, in part, retransferred to the Praefect.
[441] 'Per eum nominis nostri destinatur evectio.' The above is a conjectural translation.
[442] Are these Superintendents of the Markets, charged with the regulation of prices?
[443] 'Miroque modo inter Praetorianas cohortes et Urbanae Praefecturae milites videantur invenisse primatum, a quibus tibi humile solvebatur obsequium. Sic in favore magni honoris injustitia quaedam a legibus venit, dum alienis excubiis praeponitur, qui alibi militasse declaratur.'