97. This failure would have been almost impossible if it
were true, as Casaubon compels Aurelius Victor to affirm (ad
Sueton. in Caesar. c. 42; see Hist. August. p. 203 [Trebell.
Poll. Claud. c. 3] and Casaubon Comment. p. 220), that
Vespasian created at once a thousand Patrician families. But
this extravagant number is too much even for the whole
Senatorial order, unless we should include all the Roman
knights who were distinguished by the permission of wearing
the laticlave.