Rectus
Rectus , Aemi'lius
governor of Egypt during the reign of Tiberius, sent to the emperot upon one occasion a larger sum of money than was ordered, whereupon Tiberius wrote back to him that he wished him to shear, not shave his sheep. (D. C. 57.10; comp. Suet. Tib. 10; Oros. 7.4.)