Note 041
From Chapter 53 of the Decline & Fall

Par exstans curis, solo diademate dispar, Ordine pro rerum vocitatus Cura-Palati;

says the African Corippus (de Laudibus Justini, l. i. 136), and in the same century (the 6th) Cassiodorus represents him, who,

virgá aureâ decoratus, inter numerosa obsequia primus ante pedes regis incederet (Variar. vii. 5).

But this great officer, unknown, exercising no function was cast down by the modern Greeks to the 15^th rank (Codin. c. 5, p. 65).