Note 087 In the palace of Constantinople there were thirty silentiaries, who were styled hastati, ante fores cubiculi, an honorable title * which conferred the rank, without imposing the duties, of a senator, (Cod. Theodos. l. vi. tit. 23. Gothofred. Comment. tom. ii. p. 129.)

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The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire —Fall In The East —Chapter 42