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[ Bovillae, a small place on the Appian Way, about nineteen miles from Rome, now called Frattochio.]
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[ Dio tells us that the devoted Livia joined with the knights in this pious office, which occupied them during five days.]
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[ For the Flaminian Way, see before, p. 94, note. The superb monument erected by Augustus over the sepulchre of the imperial family was of white marble, rising in stages to a great height, and crowned by a dome, on which stood a statue of Augustus. Marcellus was the first who was buried in the sepulchre beneath. It stood near the present Porta del Popolo; and the Bustum, where the bodies of the emperor and his family were burnt, is supposed to have stood on the site of the church of the Madonna of that name.]
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[ The distinction between the Roman people and the tribes, is also observed by Tacitus, who substitutes the word plebs, meaning, the lowest class of the populace.]
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[ Those of his father Octavius, and his father by adoption, Julius Caesar.]