. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. his proterje TibuUus, who was no more of an ardent soldierthan Horace. Cf. TibuUus, Eleg. i. 7. 2 Texier, Descr. de lAsie Blineure, vol. i. pi. 1. The name of Antony was not even uttered ; it was for his victory over the Egyptianfleet at Actium that Octavius triumphed. But decrees of the Senate had already overthrown 68 AUGUSTUS, OR THE FOUNDATIOX OF THE EMPIRE. figured in the ceremony, which event has given us the beautifulstatue of the Nile preserved in the Vatican. On descending fromthe Capitol he
. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. his proterje TibuUus, who was no more of an ardent soldierthan Horace. Cf. TibuUus, Eleg. i. 7. 2 Texier, Descr. de lAsie Blineure, vol. i. pi. 1. The name of Antony was not even uttered ; it was for his victory over the Egyptianfleet at Actium that Octavius triumphed. But decrees of the Senate had already overthrown 68 AUGUSTUS, OR THE FOUNDATIOX OF THE EMPIRE. figured in the ceremony, which event has given us the beautifulstatue of the Nile preserved in the Vatican. On descending fromthe Capitol he vowed a temple to Minerva, the goddess who hado-iven him his precocious wisdom ; and in the Julian Basilica,dedicated by himself, he placed that statue of Victory which afterthe triumph of Christianity remained to the last pagans at Romethe venerated symbol of the illustrious history of their recompenses to the soldiers and the gratuities to the citizenswere what the treasures of the Ptolemies permitted them to be,— a thousand sesterces each to the former (and they were one. COMBAT BETWEEN A nUIXOCEROS AND A hundred and twenty thousand in number), and four hundred tothe latter. Even boys, who usually were counted only overeleven years of age, received their share, in honor of the youngMarcellus. So much gold was suddenly brought into circulation thatthroughout Italy the interest on money fell two thirds. — from12 to 4 per cent, — and the price of property was doubled.^ Notwithstanding this expenditure, Octavius was still richenough to make smnptuous offerings in the temples of Rome, the statue» of the triumvir, declared tlio «lay of liis birth unhicky, and forbidden any memberof tlie (lens Antnnia to boar hi» surname of ^larcus. Uich, Dirf. de» A nl. mm. et ijr/cq., under the head Vennlin. Suet., Octai: 41. Octavius liad found a great quantity of gold in the palace of Cleo-patra, for the queen on her return from Acfium had des]ioiled tlie temples a
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