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Notes Display Latin text | Translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb Book XIV Chapter 28: Decisions[AD 60] | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
As at the elections for praetors, now generally under the Senate's control there was the excitement of a particularly keen competition, the emperor [Note 1] quieted matters by promoting the three supernumerary candidates to legionary commands. He also raised the dignity of the Senate, by deciding that all who appealed from private judges to its house, were to incur the same pecuniary risk as those who referred their cause to the emperor. Hitherto such an appeal had been perfectly open, and free from penalty. At the close of the year Vibius Secundus, a Roman knight, on the accusation of the Moors, was convicted of extortion, and banished from Italy, contriving through the influence of his brother Vibius Crispus to escape heavier punishment. Note 1: emperor = Nero |