History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . r. - lie was sixty-six yc;ii~ f :i_c (Zonaras, xii. 7). 3 This office oiproc. ad alim. filled by Pertinax, which we find indicated in many inscrip-tions (e. g. , Nos. 3,190, 3,814, 6,524, and No. 1,456 of the C. I. L. iii. 235,proc. ml (dim. per Apul. Calnbr. Luc. et Brultios, for a contemporary of Alexander Severusand Gordian III.), proves that the alimentary institution of Trajan was still in full vigor aslate as the middle of the third century; but it was interrupted under Commodus (Lamp.
History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . r. - lie was sixty-six yc;ii~ f :i_c (Zonaras, xii. 7). 3 This office oiproc. ad alim. filled by Pertinax, which we find indicated in many inscrip-tions (e. g. , Nos. 3,190, 3,814, 6,524, and No. 1,456 of the C. I. L. iii. 235,proc. ml (dim. per Apul. Calnbr. Luc. et Brultios, for a contemporary of Alexander Severusand Gordian III.), proves that the alimentary institution of Trajan was still in full vigor aslate as the middle of the third century; but it was interrupted under Commodus ( 16), and Pertinax found arrears of nine years which he could not pay (Capit.,Perl. 9). COMMODUS, lEKTLNAX, JULIANUS, SEVERUS, 180 TO 211 a. d. 465 the flotilla of the Rhine, collector of tribute in Dacia, with a salaryof 200,000 sesterces, legionary tribune, senator, praetor, legate ofa legion which distinguished itself under his authority in Rhaetiaand Noricum, and, lastly, consul. The services which he renderedthe government at the time of the rebellion of Cassius against. THE EMPEROR Marcus Aurelius had given him the command of the army of theDanube, and after this the government of the two Moesias, of Dacia,and of Syria. Thus at the age of fifty-four he had filled a varietyof public offices and had administered four consular provinces. Histalents do not, however, appear to have been remarkable, and thisrapid advancement proves only that the road to honor was opento all who knew how to pursue it. 1 Colossal marble bust found at Pozzuoli (Museo Campana. II. dEscamps, op. 102). VOL. vi. 30 466 THE AFRICAN AND SYRIAN PRINCES, 180 TO 235 a. d.
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