[260] Dio, 54, 8; Horace, Od. 3, 5; this ode was written several years before the restoration of the standards, but the fact of the milites Crassi having settled in Parthia was naturally known.
[261] Verg., Æn. vii. 604-606.
[262] Horace, Ep. i. 18, 56; Odes iv. 15, 6.
[263] Propert., 3, 10, 13; 4; 4, 16; 4, 5, 48; 4, 12, 3; 5, 6, 79.
[264] Ovid, F. v. 567-594. According to Mommsen there were two temples of Mars Ultor, one on the Capitol (Dio, 54, 8), the other in the Forum Augustum, vowed at Philippi, but not dedicated till B.C. 2. The signa seem to have been deposited first in the former and then transferred to the latter. Ovid evidently speaks of them as in the temple in the Forum Augustum.
[265] Such as the Brenni and Genauni of Hor., Od. iv. 14, 10; cp. iv. 4, 18.
[266] Mon. Ancyr., 13; Horace, Epist. 2, 1, 255; Odes, 4, 15, 9; Dio, 54, 25. For the inscription, see Clinton, Fast. Hell., B.C. 14. The tenth tribunician year is from June 27th, B.C. 14, to 26th June, B.C. 13. The ara pacis was founded in this year (4th July), dedicated 30th January, B.C. 9.
[267] But he does not seem to have had any fighting this year, and in fact the Senate voted to close the Ianus Quirinus, though that was prevented by an inroad of the Daci into Pannonia, with which Tiberius was sent to deal. Dio, 54, 36.
[268] Especially in camps, in which there seem to have been a regular service of tabellarii castrenses. (Wilmann’s Exempla 1357.)
[269] The armed provinces were those on the frontier. Towards the end of the life of Augustus, the preponderance of the military force on the Rhine and Danube is the noteworthy fact. The Gauls and “Germany” had eight legions, Spain three, Africa two, Egypt two, Syria four, Pannonia two, Mœsia two, Dalmatia two. But those on the Rhine were more concentrated. (Tac., Ann. 4, 5.)