[-46-] At this time they declared Augustus immortal and assigned to him attendants and sacred rites, making Livia (who was already called Julia and Augusta) his priestess.  Permission was granted Livia to employ a lictor during the services.  And she bestowed upon a certain Numerius Atticus, a senatorial expraetor, twenty-five myriads because he swore that he had seen Augustus ascending into heaven after the manner described in the cases of Proclus and of Romulus.  A herouem voted by the senate and built by Livia and Tiberius was erected to the dead emperor in Rome, and others at many different points, sometimes with the consent of the nations concerned and sometimes without their consent.  Also the house at Nola, where he passed away, was dedicated to him as a precinct.  While the herouem was being built in Rome, they placed a golden image of him upon a couch in the temple of Mars, and to this they paid all the honors that they were afterward to give to his statue.  Other votes in regard to him were that his image should not be borne in procession at any one’s funeral and the consuls should celebrate his birthday with games no less than that of Mars[8] the tribunes, as being sacrosanct, were to manage the Augustalia.  These officials conducted everything as had been the custom, wearing the triumphal costume at the horse-race; they did not, however, ascend the chariot.  Besides this Livia held a private festival in his honor for three days in the Palatium, and this is continued to the present day by whoever is emperor.

[-47-] This was the extent of the decrees passed in memory of Augustus nominally by the senate but really by Tiberius and Livia.  Various men made various motions and they decided that Tiberius should receive written proposals from them and pick out whatever he chose.  I have added the name of Livia because she took a share in the proceedings, as though she had full power.

Meantime the populace was plunged in tumult because at the Augustalia one of the dancers would not enter the theatre for the stipulated pay.  They did not cease their disturbances until the tribunes convened the senate without delay and begged that body to allow them to spend something more than the legal amount.—­Here ends my account of Augustus.

[Footnote 1:  Undoubtedly C.  Vibius POSTUMUS is the person meant.]

[Footnote 2:  Reading [Greek:  paremenoi] (Boissevain, following the MS.).]

[Footnote 3:  A leaf is here missing in the codex Marcianus.  Of the portion lost Zonaras supplies about one quarter.]

[Footnote 4:  Another leaf of the codex Marcianus is here lacking, leaving a gap of which Zonaras and an Excerpt of de Valois supply a sixth or more.]

[Footnote 5:  A conjecture of Boissevain’s.  The MS. has “Sardinia.” (See Mnemosyne, N.S.  XIII, p. 329.)]

[Footnote 6:  Dio here appears to confuse the festival of Augustus’s Birthday (September 23d) with that of the Augustalia proper, which was celebrated October third to twelfth.  The opening of chapter 34, Book Fifty-four, might lead one to think, however, that he had accustomed himself to use the phrase “which are still celebrated” to listing the latter from the former.]