. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. from Greece or Numidia. But it was inevitable thatthe man who controlled the army should also possess therevenues. Julius Caesar had simply appropriated the as usual reached the same end by a more deviouspath. The enormous treasures which he disbursed were hisfavourite weapons of statecraft. If he had a friend to get intothe senate he would simply make him a present of the necessaryincome. To retain the goodwill of the commons he scatteredthose immense largesses which he has recorded on the Ancyranmonu
. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. from Greece or Numidia. But it was inevitable thatthe man who controlled the army should also possess therevenues. Julius Caesar had simply appropriated the as usual reached the same end by a more deviouspath. The enormous treasures which he disbursed were hisfavourite weapons of statecraft. If he had a friend to get intothe senate he would simply make him a present of the necessaryincome. To retain the goodwill of the commons he scatteredthose immense largesses which he has recorded on the Ancyranmonument. To the Roman plebs he distributed over sixmillions sterling in eight donations. On another occasion offinancial stress he lent more than half a million without the soldiers had to be rewarded after Actium he was ableto save himself from the unpopular necessity of confiscation byfinding six millions in cash to buy them land. There wasscarcely a town in the empire which had not some splendidi88 mjiVmmjv^n- ^■ jiASS&:> jjUA iiu kiii tni tiki. Anderson Fig. I. FRAGMENT OF AUGUSTAN ALTAR (See p. 249)
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