76. Ex omnibus provinciis optimates viros Curiae tuae
pigneraveris; ut Senatus dignitas . . . ex totius Orbis
flore consisterat. Nazarius in Panegyr: Vet. x. [ix.] 35.
The word 'pigneraveris' might almost seem maliciously
chosen. Concerning the senatorial tax, see Zosimus, 1. ii.
[c. 38] p. 115; the second title of the sixth book of the
Theodosian Code, with Godefroy's Commentary; and Memoires de
l'Academie des Inscriptions, tom. xxviii. p. 726.