[290] Authorities will be found in Mommsen, res gestæ, p. 96.
[291] Mon. Ancyr., 25.
[292] C. I. L. xi. 365; Mon. Ancyr. 20. “In my seventh consulship I remade the Flaminian road from the city to Ariminum, and all the bridges except the Mulvian and Minucian.”
[293] See Suet., Aug. 46. The regions are described by Pliny alone, N.H. iii. 46-128.
[294] The inscription on the road to Salonæ in Dalmatia is dated A.D. 19, but it must have been begun much earlier. For the other roads see Willmanns 832, 829, 830, 832; Clinton’s Fasti, anno B.C. 14; Journal of Hellenic Studies, xii. part i. p. 109 sq. C. I. L. iii. 6,974.
[295] Digest, 47, 11, 6. The penalties varied from a fine to exclusion from the corn trade, relegatio, and condemnation to public works.
[296] Cicero, pro Sest. § 103; ad Att. vi. 6; Livy, vi. 12; Appian, b. c. ii. 120; Dionys. H. xii. 24.
[297] Quoted by Sueton., Aug. 42.
[298] Dio, 53, 20, 33; Horace, Odes 1, 2.
[299] The Sacred Colleges (1) were exempt from military service, imposts and public services of all kinds; (2) had a charge on the ager publicus for sacrifices, feasts, &c.; (3) in most cases had estates besides; (4) received special grants from time to time for repairs of buildings.