Res Gestae

Not long after this, two former members of the secret service who were among those who had been discharged approached the emperor confidently and promised to point out the hiding-place of Florentius[*](Cf. 3, 6, above.) on condition that their military rank be restored to them.[*](They belonged to the so-called scholar Palatinae; see xiv. 7, 9, note 3.) But he rebuked them and called them informers, adding that it was not worthy of an

emperor to be led by indirect information to bring back a man who had concealed himself through fear of death, and who perhaps would not be allowed to remain long in hiding without hope of pardon.