. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. channel. The Julian Forumand Basilica which was between the temples of Castor and Saturn, worksbe-un and nearly completed by my father, I have finished ; and this basdicahaving been destroyed by (ire. I have begun its reconstruction on an enlarged « Engraved stone in the (iallery of Floronco (Gorii, J/».s. </-? Fhr., Gem. Ant. pi. 5). THE LAST YEARS OF AUGUSTUS. 299 fouiulation, with an inscription of my sons names, which if I in my lifetimedo not complete, I have directed that it be co
. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. channel. The Julian Forumand Basilica which was between the temples of Castor and Saturn, worksbe-un and nearly completed by my father, I have finished ; and this basdicahaving been destroyed by (ire. I have begun its reconstruction on an enlarged « Engraved stone in the (iallery of Floronco (Gorii, J/».s. </-? Fhr., Gem. Ant. pi. 5). THE LAST YEARS OF AUGUSTUS. 299 fouiulation, with an inscription of my sons names, which if I in my lifetimedo not complete, I have directed that it be completed l)y my heirs. Beingfor tiie sixth time consul, I have repaired within the city, by the Senatesorders, eighty-two temples, omitting no one that had need of my seventh consulship I made the Flaminian Way from Eome toAriminum from the spoils of war, and all the bridges over which it passes,with the exception of the Mulvian and Minucian. XXI. Upon my own Jand I have built with the spoils of war thetemple of Mars Ultor and the Augustan Forum. The theatre near the. VASE OF PERGAMUS (SOUVENIR OP THE GAMES IN HONOR OF AUGUSTUS).! temple of Apollo was built by me upon ground which I bought for the mostpart from private owners, that it might bear the name of M. Marcellus,my son-in-law. Gifts from the spoils made in war have been offered byme in the Capitol, in the temples of the divine Julius, of Vesta, and ofMars Ultor, which gifts have cost me about a hundred million my fifth consulship I remitted to the Italian municipia and coloniesthe present of gold,^ of the weight of thirty-five thousand pounds, which they 1 JIuseum of the I^ouvre. Pergamus celebrated every five years the , or gamesin honor of Augustus (Clarac, Notice de la sculpt, ant. du musée du Louvre, No. 801, G).^ Auru7U coronarium. 300 AUGUSTUS, OR THE FOUNDATION OF THE EMPIRE. offered me on occasion of my triumphs; and after this, whenever I wasproclaimed imperator, I r
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