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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3404303, member: 19463"]Vota numbers have nothing to do with offices and the emperors who used them played fast and loose with the math. In general, VOTA V means, "I have taken vows to be a good ruler for a period of five years." VOTA XX MVLTI XXX means, "After having honored my promises for the first twenty years, I now extend those promises for another ten." The first vows would count from the time of becoming Caesar so Constans could count from 333 but it was not unusual to take on the new vows a few years early and Constans did not live 20 years after 333. I suspect he counted vows from his birth since he was born to the reigning emperor and was always a member of the Imperial family and had to maintain a public presence. </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyone who claims to understand politics, ancient or modern, probably does not have a firm grasp on the word.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3404303, member: 19463"]Vota numbers have nothing to do with offices and the emperors who used them played fast and loose with the math. In general, VOTA V means, "I have taken vows to be a good ruler for a period of five years." VOTA XX MVLTI XXX means, "After having honored my promises for the first twenty years, I now extend those promises for another ten." The first vows would count from the time of becoming Caesar so Constans could count from 333 but it was not unusual to take on the new vows a few years early and Constans did not live 20 years after 333. I suspect he counted vows from his birth since he was born to the reigning emperor and was always a member of the Imperial family and had to maintain a public presence. Anyone who claims to understand politics, ancient or modern, probably does not have a firm grasp on the word.[/QUOTE]
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