. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. the adjacent islands, 1 Ovid Iiiinsflf (Trlst. V. .\i. , 18) gives the import of the rclcyatio by saying of the Emperor,— Nee viliini, nee open, nee Jus viihi ciols ademil . . Xil nisi me palriis jiissit nliesse foeis. In respect to tlie ileporlath, whicli, under the Empire, took tlie |ilace of the inlenlirlio m/mie Il ii/nis, it was thus regulated by Augustus : He forbade those to wliom fire and water had been interdicted to reside upon the continent or upon any island within four hundred


. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. the adjacent islands, 1 Ovid Iiiinsflf (Trlst. V. .\i. , 18) gives the import of the rclcyatio by saying of the Emperor,— Nee viliini, nee open, nee Jus viihi ciols ademil . . Xil nisi me palriis jiissit nliesse foeis. In respect to tlie ileporlath, whicli, under the Empire, took tlie |ilace of the inlenlirlio m/mie Il ii/nis, it was thus regulated by Augustus : He forbade those to wliom fire and water had been interdicted to reside upon the continent or upon any island within four hundred stadia of the inaiidand, with the exception of Cos, lîhodes, Lesbos, and .Sardinia. Tliey eoidd not change their domicile, could not own more than one transport vessel of a thousand amphorae burden, nor more than two vessels propelled by oars; nor could have more tlian twenty slaves or freedmen; nor could retain more than a fortiuie of a hundred and eighty-five thousand drachmas (Dion. Ivi. 2). The person thus exiled, being civilly dead, could neither inherit property nor make a BRIDGE AT SOKEENTO. THE LAST YEARS OF AUGUSTUS. 283


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