[215] This, it should be remembered, was exclusive of the legions regularly raised for certain provinces and stationed in them.
[216] Mon. Ancyr. 3, 16.
[217] Traces of the work of Augustus in provincial towns may still be seen, as at Nismes and other towns in South-eastern France.
[218] Horace, Odes iii. 3.
[219] In the Mon. Ancyr. 20, he says that he repaired 82 temples in B.C. 28, and the Flaminian road with all but two of its bridges in B.C. 27.
[220] The foundations of the triple arch at Rome were discovered in 1888 between the temple of Cæsar and that of the Castores. For the inscription see C. I. L. vii. 872. SENATUS . POPULUSQUE . ROMANUS . IMP . CÆSARI . DIVI . IULI . F . COS . QUINCT . COS . DESIG . SEXT . IMP . SEPT . REPUBLICA . CONSERVATA. The date here indicated is B.C. 29. See Lanciani, Ruins of Ancient Rome, p. 270. Middleton, Remains of Ancient Rome, vol. i. p. 284. There does not appear to be any record of the arch at Brundisium.
[221] Vergil, Georg. iv. 560, Cæsar dum magnus ad altum fulminat Euphratem bello. Horace, Od. 1, 12, 53:
Ille seu Parthos Latio imminentes
Egerit iusto domitos triumpho,
Sive subjectos Orientis oræ Seras et Indos.