and was
formerly believed (my authority is Dio) to be an entirely safe anchorage
for a fleet of two hundred and fifty ships._ (From the Latin of
Jordan.)

When the famine at last had subsided, he conducted a horse-race in
the name of Germanicus, who was son of Drusus, and in the name of
his brother. On this occasion an elephant fought a rhinoceros, and a
knight who had once held a prominent position on account of
wealth contended in single combat.

And he found himself sinking under the burden of old age and
physical weakness, so that he could not transact business with all the
persons that needed his services, he delivered to three ex-consuls the
care of the embassies that were constantly arriving from peoples and
kings; each one of these officials separately was empowered to give any
such delegation a hearing and to transmit an answer to them, save in
such cases as he and the senate needed to pass upon finally. Other
questions continued to be investigated and decided by the emperor himself
with the help of his cabinet.

[-34-] ... however, among the first, but among the last he declared, in
order that everybody might be permitted to hold an individual opinion,
and no one of them be obliged to abandon his own ideas because he felt
it obligatory to agree with his sovereign; and he would often help the
magistrates try cases. Also, as often as the consulting judges held
different views, his vote was reckoned only as equal to that of any one
else. It was at this time that Augustus allowed the senate to try the
majority of cases without his being present, and he no longer frequented
the assemblies of the people. Instead, he had the previous year
personally appointed all who were to hold office, because there were
factional outbreaks: this year and those following he merely posted a
kind of bulletin and made known to the plebs and to the people what
persons he favored. Yet he had so much strength for managing hostile
campaigns that he journeyed to Ariminum in order that he might be able to
give from close at hand all necessary advice in regard to the Dalmatians
and Pannonians. Prayers were offered at his departure and sacrifices upon
his return, as if he had come back from some hostile territory. This was
what was done in Rome.

Meantime Bato the Breucan, who had betrayed Pinnes and received the
governorship of the Breuci as reward for this, was captured by the other
Bato, and perished.