us was further shored up by arranged marriages among the caesars, and imperial rule proceeded under what became known as the "four princes of the world," in Latin quattuor principes mundi (Cousin).
Despite the imperial diffusion, Diocletian concentrated more real power and jurisdiction in the executive, specifically taking power and privilege from the (more politically diffuse and ambitious) senate and redistributing it to consuls and specialized bureaucrats. One legacy of that decision in Byzantium was what became a well-organized but not overwhelming bureaucrac
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