[Footnote 3:  There is a gap here in the Greek text.  The conclusion of Agrippa’a speech is missing, as is also the earlier portion of Maecenas’s, with some brief preface thereto.  In the next chapter we are full in the midst of the opposite argument,—­in favor, namely, of the assumption of supreme power by Octavius Caesar.]

[Footnote 4:  Cobet prefers to read “fearlessly” (substituting [Greek:  hadeos] for [Greek:  aedeos]).]

[Footnote 5:  Dio seems here to be imitating, in his phraseology, Thukydides (VII, 25).  The proper reading is [Greek:  peri herma] (two words), not [Greek:  perierma] as in some of the MSS.]

[Footnote 6:  Dindorf’s reading (Greek:  gunaichon te ton prosaechouson autois).]

[Footnote 7:  Compare Suetonius, Augustus, chapter 37.  In practice there were six of them,—­three to nominate senators, and three to make a review of the knights.]

[Footnote 8:  Here some words have evidently fallen out of the text.]

[Footnote 9:  Reading [Greek:  hapo] with Dindorf.]

[Footnote 10:  Reading [Greek:  archousi] (MSS. and Boissevain) instead of [Greek:  archomenois] (Xylander).]

[Footnote 11:  Adopting Boissevain’s reading (Greek:  diagein estai).]

[Footnote 12:  A reference particularly to the ludi Capitolini, founded by Domitian.]

[Footnote 13:  Latin, praefectus annonae.]

[Footnote 14:  Latin, praefectus vigilum.]

DIO’S ROMAN HISTORY

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

How the temple of Apollo on the Palatine was consecrated (chapters 1, 2).

How Caesar delivered in the senate a speech as if retiring from the sovereignty; and thereafter assigned to that body its proper provinces (chapters 3-12).

About the appointment of the governors sent to the provinces (chapters 13-15).

How Caesar was given the title of Augustus (chapter 16).

About the names which the emperors assume (chapters 17-22).

How the Saepta were consecrated (chapters 23, 24).

How Caesar fought against Astures and Cantabri (chapter 25).

How Gaul began to be governed Romans (chapter 26).

How the Portico of Neptune and the Baths of Agrippa were dedicated (chapter 27).

How the Pantheon was dedicated (chapter 27).

How Augustus was released from the obligation of obeying the laws (chapter 28).

How an expedition was made into Arabia Felix (chapters 29-33).

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

Caesar (VI), M. Vipsanius L.F.  Agrippa (II). (B.C. 28 = a. u. 726.)

Caesar (VII), M. Vipsanius L.F.  Agrippa (III). (B.C. 27 = a. u. 727.)

Caesar Augustus (VIII), T. Statilius T.F.  Taurus (II). (B.C. 26 = a. u. 728.)