Note 045
From Chapter 6 of the Decline & Fall

Dion, 1. lxxxiii. p. 1336. The sense of the author is as clear as the intention of the emperor - but M. Wotton has mistaken both, by understanding the distinction, not of veterans and recruits, but of old and new legions. History of Rome, p. 347.

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