. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. r grandeur, celebrated their ownapotheosis while apotheosizing Rome, and received from their poetsthe promise of limitless power and endless duration, — His Igo nee inetas rerum nee tempora pouo:Imperium sine fine dedi. ° • In Dalmatia resistance still continued at many points during the vears 8 and was in command there, and Augustus sent Tiberius thither in the year 9 A. D.(Dion, Ivi. 11-16.) • Upon this war, sec Dion, Iv. 29, 33, and Velleius Iaterculus, who took part in it, ii. 110-11
. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. r grandeur, celebrated their ownapotheosis while apotheosizing Rome, and received from their poetsthe promise of limitless power and endless duration, — His Igo nee inetas rerum nee tempora pouo:Imperium sine fine dedi. ° • In Dalmatia resistance still continued at many points during the vears 8 and was in command there, and Augustus sent Tiberius thither in the year 9 A. D.(Dion, Ivi. 11-16.) • Upon this war, sec Dion, Iv. 29, 33, and Velleius Iaterculus, who took part in it, ii. 110-111. • Vergil, Acncid, i. J7S-J7». OEGANIZATION OF THE FKONÏIEKS. 265 In the midst of this prosperity suddenly came the melancholy cry,presage of the future : Varus is dead ! The Romans had not forgotten in Germany their wonted pru-dence. The hereditary enmities of the different tribes had beenturned to good account. All the dwellers along the coast hadbeen received into alliance ; upon the Rhine the Usipetes and theTencteri weie subjected ; forty thousand Sicambri had been trans-. s. TRIUMPH OF ported into Gaul, and the friendship of the Bructeri was believedto be secure. Fortified posts, resting upon the great fortress ofAliso, at the sources of the Lippe, kept watch over the country;and at Cologne, as at Lyons, an altar had been erected at which I ]\Iuseum of Vienna. A magnificent cameo, called gemma Augustalis, representing thetriumph of Tiberius over the Pannonians. Their chief, Bato, who for seven years resistedTiberius, is represented chained and crouching beneath the trophy. He wears trousers, likethe mhabitants of Gallia Braccata ; on the neck of another prisoner is seen the Gallic torquh. 266 AUGUSTUS, OR THE FOUNDATION OF THE EMPIRE. the Germans were tlie priests and Rome was the divinity.^ Hereand there were formed some settlements to which the Barbariansbrought their rude productions, and began to learn Roman mannersand customs. Their c
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