Consilium [Consilivm] Principis: Imperial Councils and Counsellors from Augustus to Diocletian

xii, 178pp. Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Sun-faded spine, rubbed spine ends, call number label on spine, some wear to boards. Lender's stamps and markings on front endpapers and copyright page else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Roman emperors consulted their 'friends' - amici principis - on matters of policy, particularly in times of crisis - a practice familiar to all students of the Roman historians. The Consilium Principis thus was of major importance in the history of the government of the Roman Empire.