. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. GiraudonPlate 38. SILVER PLATE FROM BOSCOREALE(See p. 249) [p. 178 AUGUSTUS always be there. When Constantine made a new Rome hemade a new senate. As we study the subsequent progress ofthe Empire we shall sometimes find the senate really chose Galba and Nerva. It dared to depose Maximin. Itreally governed through Tacitus and Probus. It was its con-stant aim to get its members declared immune from prosecutionand sometimes it succeeded; but more often it served as awhipping-stock when Czesar was in a bad temper
. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. GiraudonPlate 38. SILVER PLATE FROM BOSCOREALE(See p. 249) [p. 178 AUGUSTUS always be there. When Constantine made a new Rome hemade a new senate. As we study the subsequent progress ofthe Empire we shall sometimes find the senate really chose Galba and Nerva. It dared to depose Maximin. Itreally governed through Tacitus and Probus. It was its con-stant aim to get its members declared immune from prosecutionand sometimes it succeeded; but more often it served as awhipping-stock when Czesar was in a bad temper. Only inthis sense is there any meaning in the term Dyarchy: if we takethe whole period of the principate from Augustus to Diocletianthere is some trace of equilibrium, faint though it be. And wemust not fall into the error of despising the letter of a constitu-tion for the sake of its spirit. Though a king of Englandnever refuses a bill in practice, it nevertheless remains impor-tant that he may. The letter is always there for reference, ifnot for use, and the spirit
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