. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. ^ were so; and the evil spread through Syria. Asia A<il. I. J). r,2. ^ The Ili-rmes hifrons of the Romans ilo not ropresent one god in two persons, but ratherIwo distinct pcrs<)n!ij;o!. M\, \\w 1 lornies representing Finmns and Tutanus.)The Hermes wliieli gives us the bust of Metroilorus (Vol. II. p. 271) bears on the other sidethe figure of E]iiiuris. ADMINISTRATION OF AUGUSTUS IN THE rROYINCES. 177 Minor, and even Macedonian Greece. Rome long resisted this;but the doctrine that the gods
. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. ^ were so; and the evil spread through Syria. Asia A<il. I. J). r,2. ^ The Ili-rmes hifrons of the Romans ilo not ropresent one god in two persons, but ratherIwo distinct pcrs<)n!ij;o!. M\, \\w 1 lornies representing Finmns and Tutanus.)The Hermes wliieli gives us the bust of Metroilorus (Vol. II. p. 271) bears on the other sidethe figure of E]iiiuris. ADMINISTRATION OF AUGUSTUS IN THE rROYINCES. 177 Minor, and even Macedonian Greece. Rome long resisted this;but the doctrine that the gods were but the upright kings ofancient times whom the gratitude of tlieir subjects had apotheosized,had prepared tlie liigher classes in Rome to accept without nuich. ALTAR OF BEAUNE. TKICEPHALUS OF RHEIMS resistance the divinity of the Caesars, while the crowd was already-gained over to this innovation by the ideas which had long beenfamiliar to them. In Italy the faith most deeply rooted in the popular heartand the most to be respected, the belief in the Manes, made thedead the protecting genii of the living. The mind is a god,said Euripides, and Cicero repeats this.^ All the rites performed 1 Animus divinus est (Cic, fuse. i. 26); and he adda (ibid. 27): Caeleste et divinum obeamque rem aeternum sit necesse est. VOL. IV. 12 178 AUGUSTUS, OR THE FOUNDATION OF THE EMPIRE. around the tomb and at the domestic hearth, which formed thetrue popular religion, arose from this idea. In the imagination of these men the dlvi manes, beingpurified by the funeral ceremonies ^ and becoming the object ofa private or public worship, — a worship of memory, affection, andrespect, — silently peopled the depths of the earth and the serene
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