Dio's Rome (Volume 4); An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimus Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, ... Severus and Now Presented in English Form - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1905. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... B- C- There were certain innovations made also in regard to o. u. 727) ° these men, but since they soon lapsed this is sufficient to say here. -- 15-- This is the method followed in regard to the provinces of the people. To the others, called provinces of the emperor, which have more than one citizenlegion, lieutenants are sent chosen by the ruler himself, generally from the ex-praetors but in some instances already from the ex-quaestors or those who had held some office between the two. Those positions, then, appertain to the senators. From among the knights the emperor himself despatches, some to the citizen posts alone but others to foreign places (according to the custom then instituted by [the same] Caesar), the military tribunes, the prospective senators and the remainder, concerning whose difference in rank I have previously spoken in the narrative.1 The procurators (a name that we give to the men who collect the public revenues and spend what is ordered) he sends to all the provinces alike, his own and the people's, and some of these officers belong to the knights, others to the freedmen. By way of exception the proconsuls levy the tribute upon the people they govern. The emperor gives certain injunctions to the procurators, the proconsuls, and the propraetors, in order that they may proceed to their place of office on fixed conditions. Both this practice and the giving of salary to them and to the remaining employees of the government were made the custom at i Cp. Book Fifty-two, chapter 25. this period. In old times some by contracting for work ( B. C. ^27 to be paid for from the public treasury furnished themselves with everything needed for their office. It was only in the days of Caesar that these particular persons began to receive so...
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