. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. t as if you were offering a piece ofmoney to an elephant (Ihiil.). !Ie liiid a personal guard of German soldiers, however [like the Swiss or Scottish guardof tome recent courts. — Ed.]. ORGANIZATION OF THE IIMlERIAL GOVERNMENT. 91 evei lie was asked, and gave his advice at family councils when itwas desired ; ^ who, finally, in order to save an obscure prisoner,pleaded with the prosecutorinstead of interposing hisveto, ^ — a man like this,what was he ? A master,a god, as some declaredhim to be ? No ;
. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. t as if you were offering a piece ofmoney to an elephant (Ihiil.). !Ie liiid a personal guard of German soldiers, however [like the Swiss or Scottish guardof tome recent courts. — Ed.]. ORGANIZATION OF THE IIMlERIAL GOVERNMENT. 91 evei lie was asked, and gave his advice at family councils when itwas desired ; ^ who, finally, in order to save an obscure prisoner,pleaded with the prosecutorinstead of interposing hisveto, ^ — a man like this,what was he ? A master,a god, as some declaredhim to be ? No ; he wasonly peace and order per-sonified. When the peopleand Senate offered to raisestatvies in his honor, herefused, but erected themto the deities whom hewished to have honoredabove himself, — PublicHealth, Concord, and he might be in aposition to bestow thesegood things, the essence ofall the great republicanoffices had been extractedand given to him ; and fromthe vmion of these powershad been formed an author-ity still nameless in the city,but limitless, because he who. HEALTH (hYGIEIA). possesssed it was the representative of the Roman people, the depos-itary of their dignities, the guardian of their rights, which he 1 Senec, De clem. 2 Suet., Orinc. ÔC, 57, and 72; Dion, xlix. ; liv.; 15 and 30; Veil. Paterc. ii. 81. Onreturning from a journey he always entered Rome at night, in order to avoid the noise anddisplay. Till within two years of his death he took part in the family festivals of his friends(Suet., Octav. 53 ; Dion, Ivi. 2G). Although he possessed the right, he never wore the sword orwar-dress at Rome, but only the senatorial toga (Suet., Octav. 73). He forbade men to callhim master or lord (Ihid. 53, and Dion, liv. 12). Let them speak ill of me, wrote he toTiberius, who blamed him for his moderation ; • what does it matter as long as they cannot dome any harm V 8 Statue in the St. Petersburg Museum. In this statue, says Clarac, we have th
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