. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. Senate decreed the erection of an altar on accountof my return, dedicated to the Augustan Peace, and ordered an annualsacrifice to be offered thereon by the magistrates, priests, and Vestals. XIII. The temple of Janus Quirinus, which, according to the commandof our fathers, is never closed except when peace prevails over all landsand seas subject to the Romans, had besn closed, as our annals attest, but 296 AUGUSTUS, OR THE FOUNDATION OF THE EMPIRE. twice since the foundation of Rome ; under my gover
. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. Senate decreed the erection of an altar on accountof my return, dedicated to the Augustan Peace, and ordered an annualsacrifice to be offered thereon by the magistrates, priests, and Vestals. XIII. The temple of Janus Quirinus, which, according to the commandof our fathers, is never closed except when peace prevails over all landsand seas subject to the Romans, had besn closed, as our annals attest, but 296 AUGUSTUS, OR THE FOUNDATION OF THE EMPIRE. twice since the foundation of Rome ; under my government thrice has theSenate proclaimed that it should be closed. XIV. My sons, Caius and Lucius Caesar, snatched from me by Destinyin theh- youth, the Senate and the Roman people, to do me honor, designatedas consuls in their fifteenth year, to enter upon office after five years shouldhave elapsed. The Senate also decreed that from the day when they werepresented in the Forum they should have a share in the deliberations ofpublic affairs ; the Roman knights also unanimously proclaimed them. TEMPLE OP JUPITER T0NAN8 * (p. 298). -principes juvcntiUis, and presented each of them with a silver shield andlance. XV. I have paid to the Roman plebs three hundred sesterces apiece inexecution of my fathers will, and in my own name, during my fifth con-sulship, four hundred apiece from the spoils obtained in war. Again, in mytenth consulship I distributed to each man from my private fortune fourhundred sesterces by way of cowjiarium. In my eleventh consulship twelvetimes I distributed corn bought at my own expense. In the twelfth year ofmy office as tribune, for the third time I gave four hundred sesterces various donations have never been made to less than two htuuhid and Ï hv Ircnost, of tlii^ Énilr drx Bt-aur-ArU THE LAST YEAllS OF AUGUSTUS. 29^ fifty thousand men. In the eighteenth year of my office as tribune, whichwas also that of my twelfth consulship, I
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