01-02-2010, 11:55 PM
Quote:(Why can't I find my Le Bohec?! :evil: )When you eventually find him, you'll see that "la préfecture des ouvriers [est] une charge purement civile dont le titulaire est, en quelque sorte, chef de cabinet d'un magistrat" (p. 44).
The fundamental study is (imho) Brian Dobson's "The Praefectus Fabrum in the early Principate", in: M.G. Jarrett & B. Dobson (eds.), Britain and Rome: Essays presented to Eric Birley on his sixtieth birthday (1966), pp. 61-84. He points out that the post occurs at the beginning of an equestrian career.
