[310] Pliny, N. H. 7 § 149; Dio, 54, 9.
[311] In A.D. 11 the people of Narbonne founded an altar to him in gratitude for some reform in their constitution which he had either granted or initiated. (Wilmanns, 194.)
[312] Asia and Sicily originally did not pay a stipendium, but tithes on produce. This system was abolished by Iulius Cæsar.
[313] Suet., August. 76.
[314] Suet., Tib. 11.
[315] Dio, 56, 29. But there does not appear to have been one that year. There was a partial eclipse of the moon on the 4th of April and a total eclipse on the 27th of September.
[316] The Mausoleum was a huge mound of earth covered with shrubs, upon a substructure or dome cased with white marble and surrounded by walks and plantations, and surmounted by a bronze statue of Augustus. On the still-existing foundation there is now what is called the Teatro Correa. Besides this the spot on which his body was burnt was also enclosed and planted. Strab., iv. 53. Middleton, Remains of Ancient Rome, vol. ii. p. 288.
[317] It ought, however, to be said to his credit that he forbade the exhibition of gladiators sine missione, i.e., without the right of being allowed to depart safe from the arena when defeated if the people so willed it.
[318] See note on p. 147.
[319] Horace, Od. iii. 8.