that Dio was first sent to manage the proconsulate of Africa, and, on his return, to govern the imperial provinces of Dalmatia and Upper Pannonia.  Somewhat later, in the year 229, he became consul for the second time, consul ordinarius, as colleague of Alexander himself.  But Dio’s disciplinary measures in Pannonia had rendered him unpopular with the pampered Pretorians, and heeding at once his own safety and the emperor’s request he remained most of the time outside of Rome.  This state of affairs was not wholly satisfactory, and it is not surprising that after a short time Dio complained of a bad foot and asked leave to betake himself to Nicaea, his native place.

Here we must leave him.  Whether his death came soon or late after 229 A.D. is a matter of some uncertainty.  It would be difficult to make a more complete record out of the available material, save to say that from two casual references it is inferred that Dio had a wife and children, and that in his career he often, sometimes with imperial assistance, tried cases in court.

A LIST OF THE MORE RECENT DISSERTATIONS

ON

CASSIUS DIO.

A. Baumgartner.—­Ueber die Quellen des Cassius Dio fuer die aeltere roemische Geschichte. (1880.)

F. Beckurts.—­Zur Quellenkritik des Tacitus, Sueton und Cassius Dio. (1880.)

J. Bergmans.—­Die Quellen der Vita Tiberii (Buch 57 der Historia Romana) des Cassius Dio. (1903.)

Breitung.—­Bemerkungen ueber die Quellen des Dio Cassius LXVI-LXIX. (1882.)

H. Christensen.—­De fontibus a Cassio Dione in Vita Neronis enarranda adhibitis. (1871.)

A. Deppe.—­Des Dio Cassius Bericht ueber die Varusschlacht verglichen mit den uebrigen Geschichtsquellen. (1880.)

P. Fabia.—­Julius Paelignus, prefet des vigiles et procurateur de Cappadoce (Tacite, Ann.  XII, 49; Dion Cassius LXI, 6, 6). (1898.)

R. Ferwer.—­Die politischen Anschauungen des Cassius Dio. (1878.)

J.G.  Fischer.—­De fontibus et auctoritate Cassii Dionis. (1870.)

H. Grohs.—­Der Wert des Geschichtswerkes des Cassius Dio als Quelle fuer die Geschichte der Jahre 49-44 v.  Chr. (1884.)

G. Heimbach.—­Quid et quantum Cassius Dio in historia conscribenda inde a libro XI usque ad librum XLVII e Livio desumpserit. (1878.)

F.K.  Hertlein.—­Conjecturen zu griechischen Prosaikern. (1873.)

D.G.  Ielgersma.—­De fide et auctoritate Dionis Cassii Cocceiani. (1879.)

E. Kyhnitzsch.—­De contionibus, quas Cassius Dio historiae suae intexuit, cum Thucydideis comparatis. (1894.)

E. Litsch.—­De Cassio Dione imitatore Thucydidis. (1893.)

Madvig.—­Adversaria Critica. (1884.)

J. Maisel.—­Observationes in Cassium Dionem. (1888.)