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. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. COPI.\, UPON A COPPER AS, COINED AT LYONS. IMP. CAESAR. DrVI F. DIVI IVLI. Heads of Julius Caesar and Augustus, Imok toback, HLimrated by a palm. On the reverse, and the prow of a vessel; above, theglobe and a milestone, ff. Do Saulcy, Sijs. mon. Je la rep. rum. à lép. de J. César. MonnaiespuHlIiuines lie Cémir, pi. i.\. fig. 4. >=-l^^. ADMINISTRATION OF AUGUSTUS IN THE PROVINCES. 199 iipon the purchasers that they should carry their slaves away intodistant countries and enfranchise none of
. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. COPI.\, UPON A COPPER AS, COINED AT LYONS. IMP. CAESAR. DrVI F. DIVI IVLI. Heads of Julius Caesar and Augustus, Imok toback, HLimrated by a palm. On the reverse, and the prow of a vessel; above, theglobe and a milestone, ff. Do Saulcy, Sijs. mon. Je la rep. rum. à lép. de J. César. MonnaiespuHlIiuines lie Cémir, pi. i.\. fig. 4. >=-l^^. ADMINISTRATION OF AUGUSTUS IN THE PROVINCES. 199 iipon the purchasers that they should carry their slaves away intodistant countries and enfranchise none of them for twenty thousand praetorians were established at Augusta Praetoria(Aosta), and two roads immediately laid out thence to Lyons,across the Great and the Little St. Bernard. The Roman capital ofGallia Coniata was henceforward not more than two or three daysmarch from Italy, whither its numerous merchants carried thecommodities of Gaul ; and the fortunate city was able to assumethe surname of Copia (Abundance), marking its prosperity. Anaqueduct, eighty-four kilometers in length, brought to it fromMont Pilat the pure waters of the Gier and the Janon. In 14 B. c. the Ligurians made their submission. Augustuslaid out a road along their sea-coast ; and at a point where it crossesa spur of the Maritime Alps, behind Monaco, he erected a monument,whose huge ruins yet exist, to announce far over the sea that thesailor cou
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