Chapter IV: Classical Authors Cited (3)

The Augustan Forum was dedicated this same year, 752. Cf. c. 21, Note. In all probability the quadriga had been in existence some time before this, inasmuch as it appears on a coin of uncertain date with the inscription: “the senate and Roman people to Cæsar Augustus, parent and presever.” If the quadriga had been made at the time this inscription was ordered, the coin would surely have borne the formal title, “father of the fatherland,” not the designation, “parent.” Cf. Eckhel, VI, 113.

[157] The seventy-sixth year of Augustus began Sept. 23, 766. Chapter 8 mentions his third census, which was completed one hundred days before his death, hence May 11, 767. The _Res Gestæ_ must have been written, then, in the interval between this date and his start for Campania, on his last journey, as we know he left this document in the hands of the Vestal Virgins. Cf. Suet. _Aug._ 97.

SUPPLEMENT.

For a discussion of this supplement, see the Introduction.

[158] Equivalent to 2,400,000,000 sesterces, about $120,000,000. This does not exactly correspond with the sum of the items mentioned in the _Res Gestæ_. These sum up 2,199,800,000 sesterces.

[159] A mere summary of c. 19, with a bit from c. 20, the only principle of arrangement being to put temples first, and the rest haphazard. The difference in the Greek and Latin is curious. No attempt is made to reproduce _pulvinar_ in Greek, although in c. 19 it had been rendered ναόν.

[160] A summary of c. 20.

[161] A summary of cc. 22, 23.

[162] For aid given to Naples, cf. Dio, LV, 10; to Venafrum, in Campania, C. I. L. X, 4842.

[163] For aid to Paphos, cf. Dio, LIV, 23; to a number of towns in Asia, Dio, LIV, 30; to Laodicea and Tralles, Strabo, XII, 8, 18; to Thyatira and Chios, Suet. _Tib._ 8.

[164] Cf. Suet. _Aug._ 41. The estate necessary to qualify a senator he raised from 800,000 sesterces to 1,200,000, and where senators were worthy, though poor, he made up their fortunes to that sum. Cf. Dio, LI, 17; LII, 19; LIII, 2; LIV, 17; LV, 13; LVI, 41.

Transcriber’s Notes:—

The printer is thought to be Anvil Printing Company
(see front matter).

In Footnote 58, Cf. Dio, XLIT is taken as a typo for
Cf. Dio, XLIV.

On Page 28 the number of Roman citizens is given as four million,
two hundred and thirty thousand. In the associated footnote this
is given as 4,233,000.

Typographical errors in the Greek (All corrected).
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Page 13 ψηψίσμασι changed to read ψηφίσμασι
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Typographical errors in the Latin (All corrected).
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