[46] E.g., his encouragement of a new college of priests founded in his honour. Dio, xliv, 6. [↑]
[47] Sueton. Julius, 44, 56. The first public library actually opened in Rome was founded by Asinius Pollio under Augustus, and was placed in the forecourt of the temple of Liberty: Augustus founded two others; Tiberius a fourth, in his palace; Vespasian a fifth, in the temple of Peace; Domitian a sixth, on the Capitol. W. A. Schmidt, Gesch. der Denk- und Glaubensfreiheit, pp. 151–52, and refs. [↑]
[48] Boissier, pp. 67–108; Suetonius, Aug. xxix–xxxi. [↑]
[49] L’Abbé Beurlier, Le Culte Impérial, 1891, introd. and ch. 1; Boissier, ch. 2. Cp. p. 185, note, above. [↑]
[50] It would seem that the occasion on which he enraged the Senate by not rising to receive them (Sueton. Jul. 78) was that on which they came to announce that they had made him a God, Jupiter Julius, with a special temple and a special priest. See Long, Decline of the Roman Republic, v, 418. He might very well have intended to rebuke their baseness. But cp. Boissier, i, 122, citing Dio, xlvi, 6. [↑]
[51] iii, 46; x, 40; xliii, 13. [↑]
[53] As to the conflict between Horace’s bias and his policy, cp. Boissier, i. 193–201. [↑]