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

xii, 178pp. In blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Cloth gently worn, a little rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends, call number label on spine. Ex lending library with library markings on front endpapers and small stamp on last leaf, 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. Hard to find title.