. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. ORGANIZATION OF THE FRONTIERS. 23y having the jus gladii, although placed under the supreme author-ity of the governor of Syria. The country preserved its religion,its municipal liberties, and its judicial rights, with the singleexception that its magistrates could not execute the death penalty. EXPEDITIONS OF GALLUi in PETRON lUS Not» T?i^ FZxzr7i£^ T37^£rLtjcui^ zirv f/Lt^n/ MAP FOR THE EXPEDITION OF GALLUS AND PETRONIUS (NEXT PAGE). without the sanction of the procurato
. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. ORGANIZATION OF THE FRONTIERS. 23y having the jus gladii, although placed under the supreme author-ity of the governor of Syria. The country preserved its religion,its municipal liberties, and its judicial rights, with the singleexception that its magistrates could not execute the death penalty. EXPEDITIONS OF GALLUi in PETRON lUS Not» T?i^ FZxzr7i£^ T37^£rLtjcui^ zirv f/Lt^n/ MAP FOR THE EXPEDITION OF GALLUS AND PETRONIUS (NEXT PAGE). without the sanction of the procurator. This was a precautionagainst local animosities and a safeguard for the condemned. In the southern part of the Empire a few wars had occurredbefore and during the sojourn of Augustus in the East. Every 240 AUGUSTUS, OK, THE FOUNDATION OF THE EMPIRE. year numerous fleets traversed the Red Sea on their way to India,and, navigating a dangerous sea, had need of ports of shelteralong the route. Augustus formed the design of subjugating thenations along these sliores, and of laying hands upon Arabia Felix,which the ancient world believed to be full of marvellous 24 B. c. Aelius Gallus set out from Egypt with ten thousandsoldiers, guided by a Nabathaean chief.^ These Arabs, whose cap-ital was the commercial centre of the peninsula, were interestedin causing the failure of
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