He gave the consular regalia even to the second grade of stewards.° rank,? he took from them If any refused senatorial that of knight also. Though he had declared at the beginning of his reign that he would choose no one as a senator who did not have a Roman citizen for a greatgreat-grandfather, he gave the broad stripe even to a freedman’s son, but only on condition that he should first be adopted by a Roman knight. Even then, fearful of criticism, he declared that the censor Appius Caecus, the ancient founder of his family, had chosen the sons of freedmen into the senate; but he did not know that in the days of Appius and for some time afterwards the term libertint designated, not those who were themselves manumitted, but their freeborn sons. He obliged the college of quaestors to give a gladiatorial show in place of paving the roads; then depriving them of their official duties at Ostia and in Gaul, he restored to them of Saturn,” which the charge of the treasury been adhad in the meantime ministered by praetors, or by ex-praetors, as in our time. He gave daughter’s the triumphal affianced regalia to Silanus, his husband, who was still a boy, and conferred them on older men so often and so readily, that a joint petition was circulated in the name of the legions,? praying that those emblems be given the consular governors at the same time with their armies, to prevent their seeking all sorts of pretexts for war. To Aulus Plautius he also granted an ovation, going out to meet him when he entered the city, and walking on his left as he went to the Capitol and returned again. Gabinius Secundus to assume the Cauchius because He allowed surname of of his conquest of the Cauchi, a German nation.