. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. Anderson Fig. I. FRAGMENT OF AUGUSTAN ALTAR (See p. 249). Fig. 2. ROMAN RELIEFPlate 42 J Manu-U & Co. [p. 188 AUGUSTUS building to bear witness of its debt to Caesars generosity, andwe shall see how he transformed the whole aspect of themetropolis. In addition to all this he often replenished thestate treasury out of his own pocket. Over a million and ahalf was thus transferred. No wonder that a man who couldthus pour his gold into the treasury should come to regard itas his own. To the Roman mind it was unbecoming to a
. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. Anderson Fig. I. FRAGMENT OF AUGUSTAN ALTAR (See p. 249). Fig. 2. ROMAN RELIEFPlate 42 J Manu-U & Co. [p. 188 AUGUSTUS building to bear witness of its debt to Caesars generosity, andwe shall see how he transformed the whole aspect of themetropolis. In addition to all this he often replenished thestate treasury out of his own pocket. Over a million and ahalf was thus transferred. No wonder that a man who couldthus pour his gold into the treasury should come to regard itas his own. To the Roman mind it was unbecoming to a free gentlemanto be asked to pay taxes in a free country. They held thata tribuhitn was only for slaves to pay. Moreover it was oneof the limitations of the power of Augustus that he had noconstitutional right to impose taxation on Italy. Twice indeedhe proposed to inflict a property-tax on Roman citizens. 4 and 13 he took a census of all properties above ;i^2000as a preliminary measure, but on the second occasion at leastit is explained by the historian as a shrewd stroke of diplomacyto make people acquiesce in th
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