. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. tment of History of the Universityof Pennsylvania. -See References, p. 331. 7 For other phases of social life at Rome under the Caesars, seechap. xxv. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE EMPIRE. 329 had been going on for a long time. Augustus did all in hispower to arrest the process. He restored the temples andshrines that had fallen into decay, renewed the ancientsacrifices,8 and erected new temples, not only at Rome, butin every part of the empire. The unauthorized foreigncults, particularlythose from the Ori-ent, which had beenintrod
. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. tment of History of the Universityof Pennsylvania. -See References, p. 331. 7 For other phases of social life at Rome under the Caesars, seechap. xxv. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE EMPIRE. 329 had been going on for a long time. Augustus did all in hispower to arrest the process. He restored the temples andshrines that had fallen into decay, renewed the ancientsacrifices,8 and erected new temples, not only at Rome, butin every part of the empire. The unauthorized foreigncults, particularlythose from the Ori-ent, which had beenintroduced at thecapital, he droveout, and strove toawaken in the peo-ple a fresh venera-tion for the ances-tral deities of Greek Apollo,however, was ex-cepted from the listof proscribed aliengods. In honor ofthis deity, whomAugustus believedhad secured him the victory at Actium (par. 206), theemperor erected a splendid temple at Rome, and causedto be transported from Egypt and set up in the capitalan immense obelisk, the emblem in Egyptian theology ofthe The Pantheon, built at Rome duringthe reign of augustus. (Present condition.) 8 The sacrificial victims became so numerous that an epigram cameinto existence which represents the cattle as saluting the emperor inthese words : Long live Caesar: yet long life to Caesar means that wemust perish. 330 ROME AS AN EMPIRE. 216. The Death and Apotheosis of Augustus. — The domestic life of Augustus was clouded by trouble andbereavement. His daughter Julia brought grief to himthrough her immoral conduct, and he was finally forced tobanish her from Rome. His beloved nephew Marcellus(par. 304), and his two grandsons Gaius and Lucius, whomhe purposed to make his heirs, were all removed by the death of these favorites Augustus made hisadopted stepson Tiberius (par. 211) his successor. In the year 14, Augustus died, having reached theseventy-sixth year of his age. His last words to the friendsgathered about his
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