[Footnote 15:  Emendation by Mommsen.]

[Footnote 16:  Compare Book Fifty-three, chapter 14.]

[Footnote 17:  His true name was Archelaus.]

[Footnote 18:  Cp.  Suetonius, Life of Augustus, chapter 23.]

[Footnote 19:  At this point in the codex Marcianus four leaves have been lost.]

DIO’S ROMAN HISTORY

56

The following is contained in the Fifty-sixth of Dio’s Rome: 

How Augustus addressed those having children and afterward the childless and unmarried, and what rules he laid down to apply to them (chapters 1-10).

How Quintilius Varus was defeated by the Celtae and perished (chapters 18-24).

How the Temple of Concord was consecrated (chapter 25).

How the Portico of Livia was consecrated (chapter 27).

How Augustus passed away (chapters 29-47).

Duration of time, six years, in which there were the following magistrates here enumerated: 

Q. Sulpicius Q.F.  Camerinus, C. Poppaeus Q.F.  Sabinus. (A.D. 9 = a. u. 762.)

P. Cornelius P.F.  Dolabella, C. Iunius C.F.  Silanus. (A.D. 10 = a. u. 763.)

M. AEmilius Q.F.  Lepidus, T. Statilius T.F.  Taurus. (A.D. 11 = a. u. 764.)

Germanicus Caesaris F. Caesar, C. Fonteius C.F.  Capito. (A.D. 12 = a. u. 765.)

L. Munatius L.F.  Plancus, C. Silius C.F.  Caecina Largus. (A.D. 13 = a. u. 766.)

Sextus Pompeius Sexti F., Sex.  Apuleius Sex.  F. (A.D. 14 = a. u. 767.)

( BOOK 56, BOISSEVAIN.)

[A.D. 9 (a. u. 762)]

[-1-] Tiberius returned to Rome after the winter when Quintus Sulpicius and Gaius Sabinus were consuls.  Augustus went out into the suburbs to meet him, accompanied him to the Saepta, and there from a platform greeted the people.  Next he performed the ceremonies proper on such an occasion and had the consuls give triumphal spectacles.  And since the knights on this occasion with great vigor sought for the repeal of the law regarding the unmarried and the childless, he assembled in one place in the Forum the unmarried men of this number and in another those who were married or had children.  Seeing that the latter were much fewer in number than the former he was filled with grief and addressed them to the following effect: 

[-2-] “Though you are but few all together, in comparison with the great throng that inhabits this city, and are far behind the others, who are unwilling to fulfill their duties at all, yet for this reason I praise you the more and I am heartily grateful that you have shown yourselves obedient and are helping to replenish the fatherland.  It is by lives so conducted that the Romans of later days will become a mighty multitude.  We were at first a mere handful, but when We had recourse to marriage and begot children we came to surpass all mankind not only in manliness