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Historiae by Tacitus
Translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb
Book IV Chapter 9: Poverty of the state[AD 69]
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Another struggle ensued. The praetors of the Treasury (the treasury was at this time managed by praetors) complained of the poverty of the State, and demanded a retrenchment of expenditure. The consul-elect, considering how great was the evil and how difficult the remedy, was for reserving the matter for the Emperor. Helvidius gave it as his opinion that measures should be taken at the discretion of the Senate. When the consuls came to take the votes, Vulcatius Tertullinus, tribune of the people, put his veto on any resolution being adopted in so important a matter in the absence of the Emperor. Helvidius had moved that the Capitol should be restored at the public expense, and that Vespasian should give his aid. All the more moderate of the senators let this opinion pass in silence, and in time forgot it; but there were some who remembered it.