Mistake in Gibbon

Those of your readers, who are, like myself, occasional verifiers of references, will perhaps thank me for pointing out a false reference, that I have just discovered in one of Gibbon's notes: "Capitolinus gives us the particulars of these tumultuary votes, which were moved by one senator, and repeated, or rather chanted, by the whole body."—*Hist. August.* p. 52. See Gibbon's *Decline and Fall*, chap. 4, note under marginal lemma, "The memory of Commodus declared infamous." These "tumultuary votes" are recorded, *not* by Capitolinus, but by Ælius Lampridius, in his *Life of Commodus*. Vide *H…