CHAPTER XV

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THE EMPEROR AUGUSTUS, HIS CHARACTER AND AIMS, HIS WORK AND FRIENDS 265

AUGUSTUS’S ACCOUNT OF HIS REIGN 293 (_From the Inscription in the Temple of Rome and Augustus at Angora_)

INDEX 303

List of Illustrations

AUGUSTUS WITH _CORONA CIVICA_. (From the Bust in the Vatican Museum) _Frontispiece_

THE YOUNG OCTAVIUS. (From the Bust in the Vatican Museum) _Facing p._ 10

COIN.—_Obv._ M. Brutus. _Rev._ Two Daggers and Cap of Liberty ” 16

” _Obv._ Head of Augustus bearded as sign of Mourning. _Rev._ Divus Iulius ” 16

” _Obv._ Head of Agrippa. Cos. III. _i.e._ B.C. 27. _Rev._ Emblematical Figure ” 16

” _Obv._ Head of Augustus with Official Titles. _Rev._ Head of same with Radiated Crown and the Iulian Star ” 16

” _Obv._ Head of Sext. Pompeius. _Rev._ The same with titles, _Præfectus Classis et oræ. Maritimæ_ ” 16

AUGUSTUS ADDRESSING TROOPS. (From the Statue in the Vatican) ” 108

COIN.—_Obv._ Head of Augustus. _Rev._ The Sphinx ” 130

” _Obv._ Heads of Augustus and Agrippa. _Rev._ Crocodile and Palm—_Colonia Nemausi_ (Nismes) ” 130

” _Obv._ Head of Augustus. _Rev._ Triumphal Arch celebrating the Reconstruction of the Roads ” 130

” _Obv._ Head of Drusus. _Rev._ Trophy of Arms taken from the Germans ” 130

” _Obv._ Head of Livia. _Rev._ Head of Iulia ” 130

ALTAR DEDICATED TO LARES OF AUGUSTUS IN B.C. 2 BY A _MAGISTER VICI_. (Uffizi Gallery, Florence) ” 196

AUGUSTUS AS SENATOR. (From the Statue in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence) ” 212

IULIA, DAUGHTER OF AUGUSTUS. (From the Bust in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence) ” 234

LIVIA, WIFE OF AUGUSTUS. (From the Bust in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence) (Page 274) ” 234

MÆCENAS. (From the Head in the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome) ” 279

P. VERGILIUS MARO. (From the Bust in the Capitoline Museum, Rome) (Page 284) ” 279

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