. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. mes of predictions in Greek and Latin wereburned. The Sibylline Books, the only gospel known to theRomans, were submitted to a strict revision, and then enclosed intwo golden caskets, which were placed beneath the statue ofApollo Palatinus. The practice of co-option introducing into thesapefdot^l colleges priests whose life jarred with their office, itwas replaced by imperial appointment.^ Augustus reconstituted Tac., .IriH. iii. I!i; Ilisl. i. 77; Pliny, EpUl. x. S. We have seen above that the Em-ji
. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. mes of predictions in Greek and Latin wereburned. The Sibylline Books, the only gospel known to theRomans, were submitted to a strict revision, and then enclosed intwo golden caskets, which were placed beneath the statue ofApollo Palatinus. The practice of co-option introducing into thesapefdot^l colleges priests whose life jarred with their office, itwas replaced by imperial appointment.^ Augustus reconstituted Tac., .IriH. iii. I!i; Ilisl. i. 77; Pliny, EpUl. x. S. We have seen above that the Em-jieror wa» a member of the four great sacerdotal colleges. lie also caused himself to beenrolled in the colleges of the Titian |)riests and the Fetiales. ADMI^ISTKATION OF AUGUSTUS AT ROME. 127 the college of the Fratres Arvales^and made himself head of it,as_he-already was of the other religious corporations. Lastly,he re-established many ancient ceremonies ; and that nothing-might stand in the way of a return to the past, he rejected allnovelties^ and forbade men. to look into the TEMPLE OF APOLLO PALATINUS.^ The magicians, several times expelled from Rome imder theRepublic, had again entered it, and were thriving there, — as isthe case with every profession which speculates upon human viceand folly. Augustus forbade them, on pain of death, to predictfuture events, — these predictions not being usually favorable to thepolicy of the time being ; and he prohibited within the pomoerium As restored by Clerget {École des Beaux-Arts). 128 AUGUSTUS, OR THE FOUNDATION OF THE EMPIEE. the Egyptian worship and the Jewish ceremonies, — two religionsover which he had no hold. He assumed the title of founder, or restorer, of temples,^ madeall men who approached him praise the gods, and even enlistedin this crusade Ovid, who, while writing the Fasti to celebratethe ancient worship, records his surprise at having come to this,after his success as the poet of Love.^ Finally Aug
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