Deinde ubi primum diem senatus habuit, [Elagabalus] matrem suam in senatum rogari iussit. Quae cum venisset, vocata ad consulum subsellia scribendo adfuit, id est senatus consulti conficiendi testis, solusque omnium imperatorum fuit, sub quo mulier quasi clarissima loco viri senatum ingressa est.
--SHA Vita Elagabali IV.1-4
When they entered the Senate for the first time, Elagabalus ordered their mother to be brought in. When she arrived, she remained at their side on the consul's bench as a secretary--indeed, she witnessed the creation of a senatorial decree! Of all the Roman emperors, Elagabalus was the only one who allowed a woman to enter the senate as if she were a man [loco viri].
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Name: ???
Date: 4th c.
CE
Works: Historia
Augusta
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Little is known about the
author(s) of the Historia Augusta; even internal evidence within the
text is either falsified, skewed or utterly fictitious. Although attributed to
six different authors, the text was likely written by a single author living during
the 4th century CE. It is a series of imperial biographies modeled
after the works of Suetonius; these biographies cover the reigns of the
emperors Hadrian through Carus.
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