Plerique principes, cum essent civium domini, libertorum erant servi: horum consiliis horum nutu regebantur; per hos audiebant per hos loquebantur, per hos praeturae etiam et sacerdotia et consulatus, immo ab his petebantur.
Most of the emperors, though masters of their subjects, were the slaves of their freedmen, at the mercy of their counsels and their whims. Through them they spoke and were spoken to; through them priesthoods, prefectures and consulships were sought'through them, or rather, from them.
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