. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. chiefs, whosecountries were now visited yearly by Roman traders,* came to payhomage to the chief of this vast Empire of peace. ^ At Mellaria, says Strabo (iii. 1, 8), they prepared salted provisions wliich were shippedfrom Belon for Tingis and Mauretania. 2 BIP. CAESAR DIVI F. COS. VI. LIBERTATIS P. R. VINDEX. Coin struck inthe sixtli consulship of Augustus, 28 B. c. The second, in which he bears the same title, isdated from his eighth consulship, 26 B. c. 3 Dion, Iv. 28. Juba caused a tomb to be con
. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. chiefs, whosecountries were now visited yearly by Roman traders,* came to payhomage to the chief of this vast Empire of peace. ^ At Mellaria, says Strabo (iii. 1, 8), they prepared salted provisions wliich were shippedfrom Belon for Tingis and Mauretania. 2 BIP. CAESAR DIVI F. COS. VI. LIBERTATIS P. R. VINDEX. Coin struck inthe sixtli consulship of Augustus, 28 B. c. The second, in which he bears the same title, isdated from his eighth consulship, 26 B. c. 3 Dion, Iv. 28. Juba caused a tomb to be constructed for himself on the model of theMadrasen (Vol. III. p. 498 and n. 2) ; it still exists, and is known as The Christians. Itis a low cylinder, surmounted by a truncated cone, on which are forty-two steps. Its diameterat the base is 64 metres, its height 33 metres ; it is probable that originally it was 10 metreshigher. * That same year the Germans had put to death Roman traders who visited them. Thelatter went out in all directions (Dion, liii. 28 ; Suet., Oclav. 22 ; Oros, vi. 21).. 206 AUGUSTUS, OR THE FOUXDATION OF THE EMPIRE. Gaul, Africa, and Spain being thus organized, Augustusreturned to Rome to assume the tribunitian authority for this was added, in commemoration of his last victories, theright of wearing during the remainder of his life, on the firstday of the year, the triumphal wreath and toga ; and a sena- tus-consultum decreed theerection of an arch oftriumph at Augusta Prae-toria (Aosta). After a residence ofnearly two years in thecapital, he began at Sicily to COIN OF CATAXA. 1 7 o J visit the eastern provinces. He there ordered all things, says his biographer. The islandgreatly needed the masters presence. The wars of Sextus hadadded new desolation to that which the earlier wars had caused,and in that fruitful land poverty prevailed. Augustus re-estab-lished Catana and Centuripae, and sent a colony to Syracuse,which had been reduced from five distr
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