. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. TEMPLE OF APOLLO PALATINUS.^ The magicians, several times expelled from Rome imder theRepublic, had again entered it, and were thriving there, — as isthe case with every profession which speculates upon human viceand folly. Augustus forbade them, on pain of death, to predictfuture events, — these predictions not being usually favorable to thepolicy of the time being ; and he prohibited within the pomoerium As restored by Clerget {École des Beaux-Arts). 128 AUGUSTUS, OR THE FOUNDATION OF THE EMPIEE. t
. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. TEMPLE OF APOLLO PALATINUS.^ The magicians, several times expelled from Rome imder theRepublic, had again entered it, and were thriving there, — as isthe case with every profession which speculates upon human viceand folly. Augustus forbade them, on pain of death, to predictfuture events, — these predictions not being usually favorable to thepolicy of the time being ; and he prohibited within the pomoerium As restored by Clerget {École des Beaux-Arts). 128 AUGUSTUS, OR THE FOUNDATION OF THE EMPIEE. the Egyptian worship and the Jewish ceremonies, — two religionsover which he had no hold. He assumed the title of founder, or restorer, of temples,^ madeall men who approached him praise the gods, and even enlistedin this crusade Ovid, who, while writing the Fasti to celebratethe ancient worship, records his surprise at having come to this,after his success as the poet of Love.^ Finally Augustus restored. TEMILE Ol MAItS THE A^liyGER, AND FORUM OK ACGrSTrS AT ROME ancient ceremonies, with restrictions originally needless in a societynaturally chaste, but now most necessary among a corrupt restored the ancient temples, and erected others to the beneficentand pacific gods, —to Ceres, to Concord, to Fortune the Ecstorer and See in cliap. Ixix., ad finem, the enumeration Lc niailu of tlio temples rebuilt bv him(Monumint tlAnci/rc, sec. xix.). Fast. ii. 8 : — . . Rnrra ratio . . Kctjiiis ad hacr, illinc crcderet esse viam f .Haec mca militia est. RpBtrncd by UcliarJ (École de» Beaux-Artu). ADMINISTRATION OF AUGUSTUS AT ROME. 12D the Saving Fortune, to Jupiter Liberator, who had delivered Romefrom anarchy, and to Peace, that long-neglected goddess, whoreceived from him two altars, upon condition of converting thewhole world to her worship. Mars, now the guardian of oaths,was no Icmger to tight except for the punishment of perjurers : he
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