Note 029

Augustus restored the ancient severity of discipline. After the civil wars, he dropped the endearing name of Fellow-Soldiers, and called them only Soldiers (Sueton. in August. c. 25). See the use Tiberius made of the senate in the mutiny of the Pannonian legions (Tacitus, The Annals, i., 25).


Note to Chapter 3 of DECLINE & FALL by Gibbon