. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. , 68); a cohort ofLigures kept watch over the coimtry round Frejus, — vctus loci auxilium (Tac, ibid. ii. 14),etc. But these were only unimportant exceptions. [Nearly the same thing may now be seen in the great Republic of the United States,except that its frontier enemies are quite insignificant. — Ed.] 2 Dion, Iv. 23. Augustus had not at first dared to impose so long a term of service ; inthe year 13 b. c. a regulation had only required sixteen years of the legionaries and twelveof the praetorians
. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. , 68); a cohort ofLigures kept watch over the coimtry round Frejus, — vctus loci auxilium (Tac, ibid. ii. 14),etc. But these were only unimportant exceptions. [Nearly the same thing may now be seen in the great Republic of the United States,except that its frontier enemies are quite insignificant. — Ed.] 2 Dion, Iv. 23. Augustus had not at first dared to impose so long a term of service ; inthe year 13 b. c. a regulation had only required sixteen years of the legionaries and twelveof the praetorians (/(/., liv. 25). 100 AUGUSTUS, OR THE FOUNDATION OF THE EMPIRE. character, and we have seen what evils the application of theprinciple had brought upon Italy. Augustus, unwilling that suchcommotions should again take place, substituted money for land ;he gave the veterans of the legions three thousand denarii, andthose of the praetorian cohorts five thousand. In deciding to keep a standing army and allot salaries to thestate officials, and in accepting the duty of making military roads. SACRIFIC? IN HONOR OF C^FïiR AND AT7GISTUS KT U\VLNN\ through the provinces and aiding the towns in works of publicutility, Augustus was necessarily deciding upon an increase of tax-ation,^ since new revenues would be needed for new were certainly some remnants of the a(/ri j^^^^^c left ; theincomes from the mines and quarries ; the of theprovinces, which amounted to one eighth of the value on objectsof luxury and one fortieth on other articles, one twentieth onmanumissions ; and above all, the former tribute of the provinces,— the tithes, the property-tax, and the poll or personal tax. But .See in Vol. TI. p. !) xqq. M. L. Uinicr (Inner, de Cnlimm JuHn Z(iraï) thinks that in Africa tlio cntranciMliieswrre not so hi;^]i. Manjiiardt (Ifninlliurli. ii. 267 S/r/.) f^ives a <urtain numbiT of thesedifferent larifT».
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