. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. close of the year 28 Augustus had issued aproclamation formally reversing all the illegal acts of himselfand his colleagues during the Triumvirate. It would not callthe dead back to life, it would not restore Cicero to the senate,it did not even give back the land to the burghers of thoseeighteen confiscated townships. But it marked contrition, andrestitution of some sort was to follow. At the beginning ofhis seventh consulship on January 13, 27 , Caesar conveneda meeting of the senate and made them a long speech in
. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. close of the year 28 Augustus had issued aproclamation formally reversing all the illegal acts of himselfand his colleagues during the Triumvirate. It would not callthe dead back to life, it would not restore Cicero to the senate,it did not even give back the land to the burghers of thoseeighteen confiscated townships. But it marked contrition, andrestitution of some sort was to follow. At the beginning ofhis seventh consulship on January 13, 27 , Caesar conveneda meeting of the senate and made them a long speech in whichhe spoke with pride of his own and his deified fathersbenefactions to the state. At the end, with a true Italianinstinct for the theatre he turned to the astonished fathers andexclaimed: And now I give back the Republic into yourkeeping. The laws, the troops, the treasury, the provincesare all restored to you. May you guard them worthily. DioCassius, who has given us a long speech certainly of his owncomposition, paints the mingled feelings of the audience, the168.
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