[444] 'Regalibus magna profecti felicitas militare donis.... Laetitia publica militia tua est.' Observe the continued use of military terms for what we call the Civil Service.
[445] 'Caduca bona non sinis esse vacantia.'
[446] 'Alioqui omnes ad quietas possunt currere dignitates, si laborantes minime praeferantur ociosis.'
[447] 'Noblesse oblige.'
[448] 'Cape igitur ... Comitivae Domesticorum Illustratum Vacantem.'
[449] Betokened by the expression 'Ociosum cingulum.'
[450] A conjectural translation of 'Sic nos virtutum jucundissimas laudes incinctum Graium desideramus includere.' Perhaps 'incinctum' means, 'though not girded with the belt of office.' Graium must surely be a proper name, and this document is therefore, strictly speaking, not a 'Formula.'
[451] 'Partes apud te sub Praetorianâ advocatione confligunt' (?).
[452] 'Vice sacrâ sententiam dicis.'
[453] 'Carpentum.'