Note 027 Hist. August. p. 238. [Vopisc. ib. c. 12.] It is odd that the senate should treat Probus less favourably than Marcus Antoninus. That prince had received, even before the death of Pius, Jus quintae relationis. See Capitolin. in Hist. August. p. 24 [in M. Anton. c. 6].

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Note to Chapter 12 of DECLINE & FALL by Gibbon