24. Tuncque primum tres praefecti praetorio fuere: inter
quos libertinus. From some remains of modesty, Cleander
declined the title, whilst he assumed the powers, of
Praetorian praefect. As the other freedmen were styled from
their several departments, a rationibus, ab epistolis;
Cleander called himself a pugione, as intrusted with the
defence of his master's person. Salmasius and Casaubon seem
to have talked very idly upon this passage.