The quaestors, then, were given charge of the treasury in place of governorships in Italy outside of the City; for he did away with all of the latter.  To compensate the praetors he entrusted to their care several kinds of judicial cases which the consuls were previously accustomed to try.  Those serving as soldiers, since by law they could not have wives, were granted the privileges of married men.  Marcus Julius Cottius received an increase in his ancestral domain (which included the Alps named after him) and was now for the first time called king.  The Rhodians were deprived of their liberty because they had impaled certain Romans.  And Umbonius Silio, governor of Baetica, was summoned and ejected from the senate because he had sent so little grain to the soldiers then serving in Mauretania.  At least, this was the accusation brought against him.  In reality it was not so at all, but his treatment was due to his having offended some of the freedmen.  So he brought together all his furniture, considerable in amount and very beautiful, in the auction room as if he were going to call for bids on all of it:  but he sold only his senatorial dress.  By this he showed that he had received no deadly blow and could enjoy life as a private citizen.—­Beside these events of the time the weekly market was transferred to a different day because of some religious rites.  That happened, too, on many other occasions.

[A.D. 45 (a. u. 798)]

[-25-] following year Marcus Vinicius for the second and Statilius Corvinus for the first time entered upon the office of consul.  Claudius himself took all the customary oaths in detail, but prevented the rest from taking oath separately.  Accordingly, as in earlier times, one man who was a praetor and second who was a tribune and one each of the other officials repeated the oaths for those of the same grade.  This custom was followed for several years.

Now since the City was becoming filled with numbers of images,—­for those who wished might without restrictions appear in public in a painting or in bronze or stone,—­he had most of those already existing set somewhere else and for the future forbade that any private citizen be allowed to follow the practice, unless the senate should grant permission or except he had built or repaired some public work.  Such persons and their relatives might have their likenesses set up in the places in question.

Having banished the governor of a certain province for venality the emperor confiscated to public uses all the extra funds that the man had gathered in office.  Again, to prevent these persons eluding those who wished to bring them to trial, he would give to nobody one office immediately after another.  This had been the custom in earlier days also, to the end that any one without difficulty might institute a suit against them in the intervening period; indeed, those whose terms had expired and who were granted leave of absence