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Title: History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Duruy, Victor, 1811-1894
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Publisher: London, Paul
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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cities of the province were also placed around the Ara Awjusti. (C. I. L.,4192, Hie!.) 4 1st of August, 10 B.C. The same day Claudius, the future, emperor, was born at Lyons.(Livy, Epit., exxxvii., and Suet., Claud., 2.) In speaking of the temple which the Spaniards erected to Augustus in the city ofTarragona, Tacitus says (Ann., i. 78): Datum in omnes provincias exemplum. Suetonius(Octav., 59) completes this idea: Provinciarum plerceque super templa et aras, ludos guoquequinqnennales pene oppidatim constituemnt. We know there were temples of Rome andAugustus at Tarragona and Merida in Spain, at Tingis in Mauretania, at Pola in Istria, atE/phesns, Nic;ca, Smyrna, Sardis, Cyme, Pergamos, Nicomedia, Cyzicus, Ancyra, Milassa,I i sarea in Palestine, and other cities. Ephesus and Nicrea had temples of Csesar and Rome.Kai rofT tKtiOtv (:(>£afifvov Kai . . . . ov fiovov iv tihq Ek\r)VlKdig iOviaiv, a\\a Kai lv toic ciWotg <i<x«T&v Vbj/iaii.iv &KoiU lyivfru. (Dion, li. 20.)
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a ao ■III THE ADMINISTRATION OF AUGUSTUS IN THE PROVINCES. 27 which the Greeks employed in speaking of the sovereign pontificateof the emperor, /xeya? apxtepevs. This high priest, the mostimportant personage in his province,1 had a kind of jurisdictionover the clergy of the province,2 as the flamen in a city had overthose of his own town, and this primacy fell as a legacy to thearchbishop in the Christian church. All the provinces, therefore,had a religious centre where the same divinity was worshipped.The old gods, humbling their pride before these new divinities,gave up to them their own most stately ceremonies, their largestcrowds of worshippers;3 and the adoration of Rome and the Augustibecame the real religion of the Empire. The cities did the sameas the provinces; each one had its flamen Augusti. In Caesarstime the scribes of Osuna swore by Jupiter and the Penates, theRepublican oath; in the time of Domitian, the duumvirs of Malagaswore by the Divinity of the dead emperors, th

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