Also, he completed the so-called Pantheon.  It has this name perhaps because it received the images of many gods and among them the statues of Mars and Venus; but my own opinion is that the name is due to its round shape, like the sky.  Agrippa desired to place Augustus also there and to take the designation of the structure from his title.  But, as his master would not accept either honor, he placed in the temple itself a statue of the former Caesar and in the anteroom representations of Augustus and himself.  This was done not from any rivalry and ambition on Agrippa’s part to make himself equal to Augustus, but from his superabundant devotion to him and his perpetual affection for the commonwealth; hence Augustus, so far from censuring him for it, honored him the more.  For, being unable through sickness to superintend at that time the marriage of his daughter Julia and his nephew Marcellus, he commissioned Agrippa to hold the festival in his absence.  And when the house on the Palatine hill, which had formerly been Antony’s but was later given to Agrippa and Messala, was burned down, he made a grant of money to Messala and gave Agrippa equal rights of domicile.  The latter not unnaturally gained high distinction as a result of this.  And one Gaius Toranius also acquired a good reputation because while tribune he brought his father, though some one’s freedman, into the theatre and made him sit beside him upon the tribune’s bench.  Publius Servilius, too, made a name for himself because while praetor he caused to be killed at a festival three hundred bears and other Libyan wild beasts equal in number.

[B.C. 24 (a. u. 730)]

[-28-] Augustus now entered upon office for the tenth time with Gaius Norbanus, and on the first day of the month the senate took oaths, confirming his deeds.  When he was announced as drawing near the city (his sickness had delayed him), he promised to give the people a hundred denarii each and issued instructions that the document concerning the money should not be bulletined until the senate also should approve.  They had freed him from all compulsion of the laws to the end, as I have stated,[10] that being really independent and possessed of full powers over both himself and the laws he should follow all of them that he wished and not follow any that he did not wish.  This right was voted to him while still absent.  On his arrival in Rome there were various events in honor of his preservation and return, and Marcellus was accorded the right to be a senator of the class of ex-praetors and to be a candidate for the consulship ten years earlier than was customary.  Tiberius was permitted in a similar fashion to be a candidate five years before the age set for each office.  The latter was at once appointed quaestor and the former aedile.  As the quaestors needed to serve in the provinces were proving insufficient, all drew lots for the places who for ten years previous had been named quaestors without the duties of the office.  These, then, were the occurrences in the City worthy of note that year.