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And yet at
a slightly earlier date iussi which we write with a
double s was spelt with only one. Further optimnus
maximus, which older writers spelt with a u, appear for the first time with an i (such at any rate
is the tradition) in an inscription of Gaius Caesar.1
1 Caligula, the first of the Caesars to adopt this title.
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