Note 042 Principes Sarmatarum Jazygum penes quos civitatis regimen . . . plebem quoque et vim equitum, qua sola valent, offerebant. Tacit. Hist. iii. 5. This offer was made in the civil war between Vitellius and Vespasian.

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Note to Chapter 18 of DECLINE & FALL by Gibbon