all this period been omitted for reasons I have mentioned.  For there were still under arms the Treveri, who had brought the Celts to help them, the Cantabri, Vaccaei, and Astures.  These last were subjugated by Statilius Taurus, and those first mentioned by Nonius Gallus.  There were numerous other disturbances going on in the isolated districts.  Since, however, nothing of importance resulted from any of them, the Romans of that time did not consider that war was in progress and I have nothing notable to record about them.  Caesar meanwhile was giving his attention to various business, and granted permission that precincts dedicated to Rome and to Caesar his father,—­calling him “the Julian hero,”—­should be set apart in Ephesus and in Nicaea.  These cities had at that time attained chief place in Asia and in Bithynia respectively.  To these two divinities he ordered the Romans who dwelt near them to pay honor.  He allowed the foreigners (under the name of “Hellenes”) to establish a precinct to himself,—­the Asians having theirs in Pergamum and the Bithynians theirs in Nicomedea.  This custom, beginning with him, has continued in the case of other emperors, and imperial precincts have been hallowed not only among Hellenic nations but in all the rest which yield obedience to the Romans.  In the capital itself and in the rest of Italy there is no one, however, no matter how great renown he has achieved, that has dared to do this.  Still, even there, after their death, honors as to gods are bestowed upon those who have ruled uprightly, and hero-shrines are built.

[-21-] All this took place in the winter, during which the Pergamenians also received authority to celebrate the so-called “Sacred” contest in honor of his temple.  In the course of the summer Caesar crossed over to Greece and on to Italy.  Among the others who offered sacrifice, as has been mentioned, when he entered the City, was the consul Valerius Potitus.  Caesar was consul all the year, as the two previous, but Potitus was the successor of Sextus.  It was he who publicly and in person sacrificed oxen in behalf of the senate and of the people at Caesar’s arrival, something that had never before been done in the case of any single man.  After this his newly returned colleague praised and honored his lieutenants, as had been the custom.  Among the many marks of favor by which Caesar distinguished Agrippa was the dark blue symbol[75] of naval supremacy.  To his soldiers also he made certain presents:  to the people he distributed a hundred denarii each, first to those ranking as adults, and afterward to the children as a mark of his affection for his nephew Marcellus.  Further let it be noted that he would not accept from the cities of Italy the gold to be used for the crowns.  Moreover he paid everything which he himself owed to any one and, as has been said, he did not exact what the others were owing to him.  All this caused the Romans to forget every unpleasantness, and they