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Title: History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Duruy, Victor, 1811-1894
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Publisher: Boston, Jewett
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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measures of generalinterest, since it voted, at one time thanks and statues to theRoman and Gallic magistrates, at another the indictment of theimperial legate before the Senate and theEmperor. For the support of the temple andits priests, for the erection of public build-ings, for the expenses of the deputations sentto Rome, it had a treasury filled by meansof a special assessment, its receipts, expenses,and litigations being in charge of regularlyappointed officers. This assembly constructedan amphitheatre, where each dejDuty had his assigned seat, and gave feasts and games ^ great bronze of tiberius ° ° ° (reverse).- there, notably contests of eloquence and of poetry, whose .singular regulations have been preserved to us bySuetonius. It appears that Augustus granted this provincial sen-ate the same right that he had allowed to the Senate at Rome,—namely, that of coining bronze money ; at least, it is believed thatthe pieces representing the altar of Rome and of Augustus, sur-
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'ALTAR AT LYONS ON A GREAT BRONZE OF TIBERIUS.
The obvtrse, a diademed head ; the reverse,AVGVSTVS CAESAR. Augustus in a biga drawn by elephants, holding a ))alm. Silvercoin of the Durmian family. Many temples at Rome were consecrated to Iloiior, whom theRomans divinized. •^ Comarmond, Deacripl. .des Aniir/., etc., de la ville de Lyon, pi. .\.\vi. Xo. 4. See alsop. 100 of this volume. In IKOG a fine mosaic, representing the games of the circus, was discovered at Lyons,uniUr tlie rue du Rempart, two hundred i)aces distant from the site of the temple of .\ugustus.It is about fifteen feet wide and nine and a half long, and is preserved in the Museum at Lyons.The competitors wear only the four colors adopted before the time of Domitian, representingIhe four seasons,—green (spring), red (suiiuner), blue (.autumn), and white (winter). Demi-li:in added to these (our faclione.i thufdcliojics nurnia and iiurjiiin:a (.Suet., Dom. 7).

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