Note 185
Such is the number assigned by Valer'us
Maximus, (l. ix. c. 2, No. 1,) Florus (iv. 21) distinguishes
2000 senators and knights. Appian (de Bell. Civil. l. i. c.
95, tom. ii. p. 133, edit. Schweighauser) more accurately
computes forty victims of the senatorian rank, and 1600 of
the equestrian census or order.]
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 44