is less correct.]
[Footnote 6: I. e., the _lacus Venetus_.]
[Footnote 7: This eminence with its villa appropriately bore the Greek
title _Pausilypon_ (Grief's Surcease), a compound word like our modern
names _Heartsease_, _Sans Souci_, etc. It is the modern "Hill of
Posilipo."]
[Footnote 8: English, _Twenty Men_; their regular title.]
[Footnote 9: Latin, _Viginti Sex Viri_.]
[Footnote 10: The words "certain honors" are supplied on the suggestion
of Boissevain. Boissee and others, who surmise that the text here
contains a lacuna]
[Footnote 11: I. e., at the time of the Feriae.]
[Footnote 12: The reading [Greek: agoranomos] is generally preferred here
to [Greek: asotunmos]]
DIO'S
ROMAN HISTORY
55
The following is contained in the Fifty-fifth of Dio's Rome:
How Drusus died (chapters 1, 2).
How the Precinct of Livia was consecrated (chapter 8)
How the Campus Agrippae was consecrated (chapter 8)
How the Diribitorium was consecrated (chapter 8).
How Tiberius retired to Rome (chapter 11).
How the Forum of Augustus was consecrated (chapter 12).
How the Temple of Mars therein was consecrated (chapter 12).
How Lucius Caesar and Gaius Caesar died (chapters 11, 12).
How Augustus adopted Tiberius (chapter 13).
How Livia urged Augustus to rule more mercifully (chapters 14-22).
About the legions and how men were appointed to manage the military fund
(chapters 23-25).
How the night-watchmen[1] were appointed (chapter 26).
How Tiberius fought against the Dalmatians and Pannonians (chapters
28-34).
Duration of time, 17 years, in which there were the following magistrates
here enumerated:
Nero Claudius Tib. F. Drusus, T. Quinctius T. F. Crispinus. (B.C. 9 = a.
u. 745.)
C. Marcius L. F. Censorinus, C. Asinius C. F. Gallus. (B.C. 8 = a. u.
746.)
Tib. Claudius Tib. F. Nero (II), Cn. Calpurnius Cn. F. Piso. (B.C. 7 = a.
u. 747.)
Decimus Laelius Decimi F. Balbus, C. Antistius C. F. Veter. (B.C. 6 = a.
u. 748.)
Augustus (XII), L. Cornelius P. F. Sulla. (B.C. 5 = a. u. 749.)
C. Calvisius C. F. Sabinus (II), L. Passienus Rufus (B.C. 4 = a. u. 750.)
L. Cornelius L. F. Lentulus, M. Valerius M. F. Messalla [or] Messalinus.
(B.C. 3 = a. u. 751.)
Augustus (XIII), M. Plautius M. F. Silvanus. (B.C. 2 = a. u. 752.)
Cossus Cornelius Cn. F. Lentulus, L. Calpurnius Cn. F. Piso (B.C. 1 = a.
u. 753.)
C. Caesar Augusti F., L. AEmilius L. F. Paulus. (A.D. 1 = a. u. 754.)
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