their life.  So first he persuaded fifty of them to retire voluntarily from the assemblage and then compelled one hundred and forty others to imitate their example.  He disenfranchised none of them, but posted the names of the second division.  In the case of the first, because they had not delayed but had straightway obeyed him, he remitted the reproach and their identity was not made public.  These accordingly returned willingly to private life.  He ousted Quintus Statilius, very much against the latter’s will, from the tribuneship to which he had been appointed.  Some others he made senators, and he counted among the ex-consuls two men of the senatorial class,—­a certain Cluvius and Gaius Furnius,—­because they had been appointed first, though certain others had taken possession of their offices so that they were unable to become consuls.  He added to the class of patricians, the senate allowing him to do this because most of its members had perished.  No element is exhausted so fast in civil wars as the nobility or is deemed to be so necessary for the continuance of ancestral customs.  In addition to the above measures he forbade all persons in the senate to go outside of Italy, unless he himself should order or permit any one of them to do so.  This custom is still kept up at the present day.  Except that he may visit Sicily and Gallia Narbonensis no senator is allowed to go anywhere out of the country.  As these regions are close at hand and the population is unarmed and peaceful, those who have any possessions there have been granted the right to take trips to them as often as they like, without asking leave.—­Since also he saw that many of the senators and of the others who had been devoted to Antony still maintained an attitude of suspicion toward him, and as he was afraid they might cause some uprising, he announced that all the letters found in his rival’s chest had been burned.  Some of them as a matter of fact had perished, but the majority of them he took pains to preserve and did not even hesitate to use them later.

[-43-] Besides these acts related he also settled Carthage anew, because Lepidus had laid waste a part of it and for that reason he maintained that the colonists’ rights of settlement had been abrogated.  He summoned Antiochus of Commagene to appear before him because this prince had treacherously slain an envoy despatched to Rome by his brother, who was at variance with him.  Caesar brought him before the senate, where he was condemned and the sentence of death imposed.  Capreae was also obtained from the Neapolitans, to whom it had anciently belonged, in exchange for other land.  It lies not far from the mainland opposite Surrentum and is good for nothing but has a name even now on account of Tiberius’s sojourn there.—­These were the events of that period.

[Footnote 1:  Reading [Greek:  anagchastae] (Boissevain)]

[Footnote 2:  The same Strabo who is mentioned in the early part of chapter 28, Book Forty-four.]