the Primiscriniate) in the
Praefectoral Courts[169]. The first fifteen were called
_Deputati_[170], the others were apparently known simply as
Augustales.

[Footnote 168: iii. 6, 9.]

[Footnote 169: I think this is a fair summary of Lydus iii. 9 and 10,
but these paragraphs are very difficult and obscure.]

[Footnote 170: We should certainly have expected that the Augustales
would be those writers who were specially appropriated to the
Emperor's service, but the other conclusion necessarily follows from
the language of Lydus (iii. 10): [Greek: hoste kai pentekaideka ex
auton ton pepanoteron peira te kai to chrono kreittonon pros
hypographen tois basileusin aphoristhenai, ous eti kai nun depoutatous
kalousin, hoi tou tagmatos ton Augoustalion proteuousin].]

The change thus described by Lydus appears to have been made in the
West as well as in the East, since we hear in the 'Variae' of
Cassiodorus (xi. 30) of the appointment of a certain Ursus to be
Primicerius of the Deputati, and of Beatus to take the same place
among the Augustales[171].

[Footnote 171: The form of the word must I think prevent us from
applying the Princeps _Augustorum_ of xi. 35 to the same class of
officers.]

[Sidenote: Adjutores.]

(11) The _Adjutores_ of the 'Notitia' were probably a lower class of
Exceptores, who may very likely have disappeared when the Augustales
were formed out of them by the process of differentiation which has
been described above.

We have now gone through the whole of what was termed the 'Learned
Service[172]' mentioned in the 'Notitia,' with one exception--the
title of an officer, in himself humble and obscure, who has given his
name to the highest functionaries of mediaeval and modern Europe.

[Footnote 172: [Greek: tous epi tais logikais tetagmenous
leitourgiais] (Lydus iii. 7). [Greek: Peras men hode ton logikon tes
taxeos systematon] (iii. 21). The 'Learned Service' may be taken as
corresponding to 'a post fit for a gentleman,' in modern phraseology.
In our present Official Directories the members of the [Greek: logike
taxis] appear to be all dignified with the title 'Esq.;' the others
have only 'Mr.']

[Sidenote: Cancellarius.]

(12) The _Cancellarius_ appears in the 'Notitia' only once[173], and
then in connection not with the Praetorian Praefect, but with the
Master of the Offices. At the very end of the Officium of this
dignitary, after the six _Scholae_ and four _Scrinia_ of his
subordinates, a