. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. raved upon the diadem itajipears that the quaestor L. Lilugius presented this statue to the colony of Vienna {Gazettearcheol. 1876, pi. 1). 298 AUGUSTUS, OR THE FOUNDATION OF THE EMPIKE. and L. Arruntius I gave, iu the name of Tib. Caesar and in my own, onehundred and seventy million sesterces into the military treasury establishedby my advice for the payment of gratuities to the soldiers who had servedtwenty years and upwards. XVIII. The year of the consulship of Cn. and P. Lentulus, the publicreven
. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. raved upon the diadem itajipears that the quaestor L. Lilugius presented this statue to the colony of Vienna {Gazettearcheol. 1876, pi. 1). 298 AUGUSTUS, OR THE FOUNDATION OF THE EMPIKE. and L. Arruntius I gave, iu the name of Tib. Caesar and in my own, onehundred and seventy million sesterces into the military treasury establishedby my advice for the payment of gratuities to the soldiers who had servedtwenty years and upwards. XVIII. The year of the consulship of Cn. and P. Lentulus, the publicrevenues failed. ... I bought corn at my own expense, and furnished atone time to a hundred thousand men, at another to more, aid in cornand money. XIX. The Curia, and the Chalcidicum adjacent thereto, the temple ofApollo upon the Palatine with its porticoes, the temple of the divineJulius, the Lupercal, the portico adjacent to the circus of Flammius (towhich I allowed to be left the name Octavian, after him who had previouslybuUt one on the same spot), the Pulvinar at the Circus :\Iaxknus, the. CONTEST OF ATHLETES. temples on the Capitol of Jupiter Feretrins and Jupiter Tonans, thetemple of Quirinus, those of Minerva, of Juno Regina, and of Jupiter Libertason the Aventme, that of the Lares at the summit of the Via Sacra, thoseof the Penates upon the Velian hill, and those of Juventas and of theMater Magna on the Palatine, were built by me. XX. The Capitol and the theatre of Pompeius have both been restoredby me at great expense, but without inscribing my name upon either ofthese edifices. I have repaired the aqueducts which were falling intoruin at many points, and I have doubled the amount of the water calledMarcian by turning another spring into its 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 o
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