they displayed [lacuna] and hero and what befitted his reign, not to be sure [lacuna] and wholly the judgments of all men in Rome [lacuna] underwent a change [lacuna] senate [lacuna] to him [lacuna] me [lacuna] however, when all were questioned man by man regarding his honors, both others answered ambiguously and [lacuna] Saturninus [lacuna] in a way attributing [lacuna] praetors [lacuna] that it was not permissible for him to put any vote about anything, in order that they might avoid the consul’s jealousy.  This procedure was contrary to precedent, for it was not lawful that there should take place in the senate-chamber an inquiry into any matter, except at the command of the emperor.

[Sidenote:—­20—­] The crowd, because they could obscure their identity at the contest and by their numbers, gained the greater boldness, raised a loud cry at the horse-race on the birthday of Diadumenianus, which fell on the fourteenth of September:  they uttered many lamentations, asserting that they alone of all mankind were destitute of a leader, destitute of a king; and they invoked the name of Jupiter, declaring that he alone should be their leader and uttering aloud these words:  “As a master thou wert angry, as a father take pity on us.”  Nor would they pay any heed at first to either the equestrian or the senatorial order [lacuna] and commending the emperor and the Caesar to the extent of [lacuna] in Greek saying:  “Ah, what a glorious day is to-day!  What noble kings!” and desiring that the others also should share their opinion.  But they stretched out their arms toward the sky and exclaimed:  “[lacuna]. this is the Roman Augustus:  having him we have all!” So true it is that among mankind respect is a distinct characteristic of the better element and contempt a characteristic of the worse.  For these two now regarded Macrinus and Diadumenianus as henceforth absolutely non-existent and trampled upon their claims as though they were already dead.  This was one great reason why his soldiers despised him, and paid no heed to what was done to win their favor.  Another still more important cause lay in the frequent and extraordinary insolence shown toward him by the Pergamenians, who were deprived of what they had formerly received from Tarautas; and for this conduct he imposed upon them public sentence of loss of citizenship. [Sidenote:—­21—­] The attitude of the soldiers is straightway to be described.  At this time Macrinus neither sent to the senate, as they were demanding, nor published otherwise any document of the informers, saying either truly or falsely (to avoid a great disturbance) that none such had been found in the royal residence.  For Tarautas had either destroyed the majority of those containing any accusation or had returned them to the senders themselves, as I have stated, [Footnote:  The passage to which Dio refers is lost.] to the end that no proof of his baseness should be left.  But he did reveal the names of three senators whom,