[270] C.I.L. x. 8375; Mon. Ancyr. 11.
[271] Suet., Aug. 98: “As he chanced to be cruising in his yacht round the bay of Puteoli, the passengers and crew of an Alexandrine ship, which had just come to land, came with white robes, with garlands on their heads and burning censers in their hands, loudly blessing and praising him, and saying that they owed it to him that they were alive, that they sailed the sea, that they were enjoying their liberty and property.”
[272] Horace, Odes iv. 5.
[273] See, among others, Ep. ii. 1-16; Odes 3, 5, 2; 4, 5, 32.
[274] Suet., Aug. 52; Dio, 51, 20.
[275] The Latin inscriptions bearing on this point have been collected in a convenient form by Mr. Rushforth, Latin Historical Inscriptions, pp. 51-61. Other places in Italy thus shewn to have adopted the cult in some form or other during the lifetime of Augustus are Asisium, Beneventum, Fanum Fortunæ, Pisa, Tibur, Verona, possibly Ancona, and Forum Clodii, and some unnamed place in Latium.
[276] Plut., Flamin. 16; Cicero, ad Q. Fr. 1, 1, 9; ad Att. 5, 21; Tac., Ann. 4, 56. Polyb. 31, 15.
[277] Appian, b. c. 5, 132, “and the cities began placing his image side by side with those of their gods.”
[278] Information as to these is mostly to be found in Greek inscriptions, C.I.G. 3,524, 3,604, 3,831, 4,039. See also Dio, 51, 10; Strabo, 27, 1, 9; Joseph., Antiq. 15, 10, 3; Livy, Ep. 137; Pausan., iii. 25.
[279] Quintilian, vi. 377.