Dio's Rome, Volume 4: An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English FormCassius Dio Cocceianus
History
Dio's Rome, Volume 4: An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form
Cassius Dio Cocceianus
Rome -- History
It was not closed, however, for the Dacians crossing the Ister on the ice
took the crops of Pannonia as booty, and the Dalmatians revolted at the
imposition of taxes. Against the latter Tiberius was sent from Gaul,
whither he had gone in company with Augustus, and he restored order. The
nations of the Celtæ, and especially the Chatti, were partly weakened
and partly subdued by Drusus; the tribe mentioned had gone to join the
Sugambri, having abandoned their own country, which the Romans had given
them to dwell in. The emperor delayed in Lugdunis, where he could keep a
sharp watch on affairs, as it was so near the Celtæ. The victors returned
to Rome with Augustus, assumed whatever dignities had been voted them by
the senate, and performed such other duties as belonged to them.--These
events took place in the consulship of Iullus and Fabius Maximus.
[Footnote 1: Pliny (Natural History VI, 181) calls him _Publius_.]
[Footnote 2: Readings and punctuation from Dindorf.]
[Footnote 3: Augustus returned to Rome October twelfth, and the temple in
question was consecrated December fifteenth.]
[Footnote 4: Boissevain here amends to [Greek: 'epelpisas]]
[Footnote 5: In the matter of the spelling of this name the weight of
authority prefers _Licinus_. Dio's form is less correct.]
[Footnote 6: I. e., the _lacus Venetus_.]
[Footnote 7: This eminence with its villa appropriately bore the Greek
title _Pausilypon_ (Grief's Surcease), a compound word like our modern
names _Heartsease_, _Sans Souci_, etc. It is the modern "Hill of
Posilipo."]
[Footnote 8: English, _Twenty Men_; their regular title.]
[Footnote 9: Latin, _Viginti Sex Viri_.]
[Footnote 10: The words "certain honors" are supplied on the suggestion
of Boissevain. Boissée and others, who surmise that the text here
contains a lacuna]
[Footnote 11: I. e., at the time of the Feriæ.]
[Footnote 12: The reading [Greek: agoranomos] is generally preferred here
to [Greek: asotunmos]]
DIO'S
ROMAN HISTORY
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The following is contained in the Fifty-fifth of Dio's Rome:
How Drusus died (chapters 1, 2).
How the Precinct of Livia was consecrated (chapter 8)
How the Campus Agrippae was consecrated (chapter 8)
How the Diribitorium was consecrated (chapter 8).
How Tiberius retired to Rome (chapter 11).
How the Forum of Augustus was consecrated (chapter 12).
How the Temple of Mars therein was consecrated (chapter 12).
How Lucius Cæsar and Gaius Cæsar died (chapters 11, 12).
How Augustus adopted Tiberius (chapter 13).
How Livia urged Augustus to rule more mercifully (chapters 14-22).
About the legions and how men were appointed to manage the military fund
(chapters 23-25).
How the night-watchmen[1] were appointed (chapter 26).
How Tiberius fought against the Dalmatians and Pannonians (chapters
28-34).
Duration of time, 17 years, in which there were the following magistrates
here enumerated:
Nero Claudius Tib. F. Drusus, T. Quinctius T. F. Crispinus. (B.C. 9 = a.
u. 745.)
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