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, Νεότητος, Μητρὸς θεῶν, ἀγορᾷ Σεβαστῇ θέατρον ἄλσος Καισάρων,

ἡρώ[ων, θεῶν πατρίων β[ουλευτήριον] σὺν χαλκιδικῷ, Μαρκέλλου, β[α]σιλικὴ Ἰουλία,

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ἐ[ν] Παλατ[ί]ῳ, στοὰ ἐν ἱπποδρόμῳ Φλαμινίῳ. Ἐπεσκευάσθη τὸ Καπιτώλιον, ναοὶ ὀγδοήκοντα δύο, θέ[ατ]ρον Π[ομ]πηίου, ὁδὸς Φλαμινία, ἀγωγοὶ ὑδάτων. [Δαπ]άναι δὲ εἰς θέας καὶ μονομάχους καὶ ἀθλητὰς καὶ ναυμαχίαν καὶ θηρομαχίαν δωρεαί [τε] ἀποικίαις πόλεσιν ἐν Ἰταλίᾳ, πόλεσιν ἐν ἐπαρχείαις σεισμῷ κα[ὶ] ἐνπυρισμοῖς πεπονηκυίαις ἢ κατ ̓ ἄνδρα φίλοις καὶ συνκλητικοῖς, ὧν τὰς τειμήσεις προσεξεπλήρωσεν: ἄπειρον πλῆθος.

II. DATES IN THE LIFE OF AUGUSTUS.

C. I. L. x. 8375 (at Cumae). Rushforth 38.

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Aug. 19. [XIIII K. Septembr. eo die Caesar pri]mum consulatum in[iit .........
Sept. 3. [III Non. Septembr. eo die exercitus Lepidi tradidit se Caesari.
Suppli[c]a[tio . .]

Sept. 23. [VIIII K. Octobr. natalis Caesaris. Immolatio Caesari hostia. Sup

Oct. 7.

plicatio...

Nonis Octobr. Drusi Caesaris natalis. Supplicatio Vestae. Oct. 18. XV K. Novembr. eo die Caesar togam virilem sumpsit. Supplicatio Spei et Iuventuti].

Nov. 16.

Dec. 15.

Jan. 7.

XVI K. Decembr. natalis Ti. Caesaris. Supplicatio Vestae.
XVIII K. Ianuar. eo die a[r]a Fortunae Reducis dedicatast quae
Caesarem [ex transmari-]

nis provincis red[uxit]. Supplicatio Fortunae Reduci.
VII Idus Ianuar. e[o die Caesar] primum fasces sumpsit. Supplicatio
Iovi sempi[terno].

Jan. 16. [XV]III K. Febr. eo di[e Caesar Augustu]s appellatus est. Supplicatio Augusto.

Jan. 30. [III K. Febr. eo die ara Pacis Aug(ustae) dedicata] est. Supplicatio imperio Caesaris Augusti cust[odis]

[civium Romanorum totiusque orbis terrar]um.

Mar. 6. [Prid. Non. Mart. eo die Caesar pontifex maximus creatus est. Supplicatio Vestae, dis pub(licis) P(enatibus) p(opuli) R(omani)

Q(uiritium).

Apr. 14. [XVIII K. Mai. eo die Caesar primum vicit. Suppli]catio Victoriae

Augustae.

Apr. 15. XVII K. Mai. eo die Caesar primum imperator app]ellatus est. Supplicatio Felicitati Imperi.

May 12. [IIII Id. Mai. eo die aedes Martis dedicatast. Supplicatio Molibus

Martis.

May 24. [VIIII K. Iun. natalis Germanici Caesaris. Supplicatio Vestae.

July 12. [IIII Id. Iul. natalis divi Iuli. Supplicatio Iovi, Marti Ultori, Veneri [Genetrici].

Supplicatio Iovi . . . .

APPENDIX B.

THE ASSASSINS OF IULIUS.

To avenge his great-uncle's murder was the first object of Octavian [c. 10, M. A. 1]. The revenge took gradually a wider sweep, but it was in the first place to be exacted from those who had taken actual part in the murder. Of these men Suetonius [Caesar 80] says that scarcely any survived their victim more than three years, or died a natural death. All were condemned under the lex Pedia, and were either executed, or perished by shipwreck, or fell in battle, or killed themselves. Dio [48, 1] says that all but a few met with the fate which the murder of a benefactor deserved. Plutarch [Caes. 69] declares that the Fortune which attended Caesar in his lifetime became an avenging spirit after his death, pursuing and tracking his murderers over land and sea till none were left. It is scarcely possible to test this statement completely, for the number privy to the conspiracy was large,-60 according to Suetonius [Caes. 80], 'some obscure and some young' [Cic. 2 Phil. § 26], and accordingly many of their names are unknown to us; but with some exceptions it is confirmed by what we learn of those whose names have been preserved.

The most extensive list of names is that given by Appian B. civ. 2, 111-113, but some are learnt from other sources.

M. Iunius Brutus Caepio.

They are:

Killed himself at Philippi B.C. 42. App. 4, 131; Dio 47, 49. Dec. Iunius Brutus Albinus.

Killed in Gaul B.C. 43. App. 4, 98; Dio 46, 53.

C. Servilius Casca.

P. Servilius Casca.

Cic. 2 Phil. § 27. Publius was tribune in B.C. 43, and was condemned under the lex Pedia [Dio 46, 49; Cic. ad fam. 16, 15; 13 Phil. § 31], but escaped from Rome and fought at Philippi [B.C. 42. Plut.

Brut. 45]. He either fell there or perished soon afterwards, but it is not known which. Gaius seems to have been Tribune in B.C. 44 and to have tried to disclaim any share in the murder [Dio 44, 52], but Cicero [2 Phil. 27] and Appian [B. civ. 2, 113] speak of both brothers being among the assassins, and Plutarch [Caes. 66] represents Casca (he gives no praenomen or nomen) exclaiming ådeλpé, ßoýleɩ. His subsequent fate is unknown.

Caecilius and Bucilianus.

Appian, l.c. Nothing is known of these two brothers. Bucilianus accompanied M. Brutus and presumably shared his fate [Cic. ad Att. 15, 17, 2; 16, 4 § 4].

C. Cassius.

Killed himself at Philippi, App. B. civ. 4, 113; Dio 47, 46. Cassius Parmensis.

Put to death in B.C. 31 or 30, see note on p. 8.

Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus.

It has been questioned whether he was among the assassins. He was however condemned under the lex Pedia and was in the proscription list. Cocceius, the legate of Antony in B.C. 40, denied that he was an assassin [App. B. civ. 5, 62]; but Cicero [2 Phil. §§ 27, 30] names him emphatically, and Appian, though he does not mention him in his account of the murder, speaks of him elsewhere [B. civ. 5, 59] as a σpayeùs Tatov Kaíσapos, as also does Dio [48, 7 and 54]. He was in command of ships at the time of the battle of Philippi, and after that joined Sext. Pompeius; but after the treaty of Tarentum [B.C. 37] became reconciled with Antony, by whose influence he secured the Consulship in B.C. 32. Though on the rupture between Augustus and Antony in that year he left Rome and joined the latter, he quarrelled with Cleopatra and joined Augustus before Actium, but died shortly afterwards, prior it seems to the actual battle [Dio 50, 13]. See p. 38.

Q. Antistius Labeo.

Father of the jurist [see c. 54]. He caused a slave to kill him in his tent after Philippi [App. B. civ. 4, 135]. See Cic. Ep. ad Brut. 1, 18; 2, 27.

Q. Ligarius.

Plutarch [Brut. 11] calls him Gaius. Cicero had defended him on a charge of vis. With his two brothers he perished in the proscription of B.C. 43-2. App. B. civ. 4, 22 [Cic. pro Lig. 12; fam. 6, 13, 14; Att. 13, 12, 19, 20, 44].

Minucius Basilus

was murdered by his own slaves in retaliation for a barbarous act on his part early in B.C. 43 [App. B. civ. 3, 98]. In the assassination he wounded Rubrius by mistake [Nic. Dam. c. 24]. He was a friend of Cicero's [Att. 11, 5], who wrote congratulating him on the murder [ad fam. 6, 15].

Sextius Naso

perished in the proscription of B.C. 43—2 [Appian B. civ. 4, 24]. Petronius.

Otherwise unknown. He was put to death by Antony at Ephesus after Philippi B.C. 42 [App. B. civ. 5, 4].

L. Pontius Aquila.

He was legatus to Decimus Brutus in B.C. 43 [Dio 46, 38; Cic. 11 Phil. § 14; 13 Phil. 27], and was killed in the battle at Forum Gallorum, near Mutina, 15 April B.C. 43 [Dio 46, 40].

Rubrius Ruga.

App. B. civ. 2, 113; Nic. Dam. c. 24. His fate is not recorded. Ser. Sulpicius Galba.

Great-grandfather of the Emperor Galba [Suet. Galb. 3]. He wrote the well-known account of the battle at Forum Gallorum on the 15th of April [Cic. fam. 10, 30]. Appian's assertion that he was among the assassins is confirmed by a sentence in Antony's letter to the Senate, Cic. 13 Phil. 33. He probably fell in the course of the campaign, as his name is not mentioned among the proscribed.

M. Spurius.

Nothing is known of him or his fate.

Statilius.

Perhaps L. Statilius, an augur [Cic. Att. 12, 13 § 2; 14, 3]. He was killed at Philippi, Plut. Brut. 51.

C. Toranius.

See p. 58. He perished in the proscription, App. B. civ. 4, 12, 18; Orosius 6, 18, 9. He was betrayed to the emissaries of the triumvirs by his son. [Valer. Max. 9, 11, 5.]

L. Tillius Cimber.

Though a great friend of Iulius [Cic. fam. 12, 13, 3; 2 Phil. § 27], he struck the first blow [Iul. 82]. He brought a fleet from his province of Bithynia to aid Brutus and Cassius in Macedonia B.C. 42 [App. B. civ. 4, 102, 105]. He either perished in the course of the war or immediately after it. He would meet with no mercy as being con

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