73. Scilicet externae superbiae sueto, non inerat notitia
nostri (perhaps 'nostrae'); apud quos vis Imperii valet,
inania transmittuntur. Tacit. Annal. xv. 31. The gradation
from the style of freedom and simplicity to that of form and
servitude may be traced in the Epistles of Cicero, of Pliny,
and of Symmachus.