Note 107
From Chapter 44 of the Decline & Fall

Except on public occasions, and in the actual exercise of his office.

In publicis locis atque muneribus, atque actionibus patrum, jura cum filiorum qui in magistratu sunt potestatibus collata interquiescere paullulum et connivere, etc. (Aul. Gellius, Noctes Atticae, ii. 2.).

The Lessons of the philosopher Taurus were justified by the old and memorable example of Fabius; and we may contemplate the same story in the style of Livy (xxiv. 44) and the homely idiom of Claudius Quadrigarius the annalist.

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