This he did later.  At the time mentioned he founded a number of cities as colonies in Gaul and in Spain and restored to the people of Cyzicus their freedom.  To the Paphians, who had suffered from an earthquake, he gave money and allowed them, by a decree, to call their city Augusta.  I have recorded this, not because Augustus himself and the senators failed to aid many other cities both before and after this, in case of similar misfortunes,—­if any one should attempt to mention them all, the task of such a historian would be endless,—­but my aim is to show that the senate assigned names to cities as an honor and the latter did not, as is the usual procedure now, compile for themselves (each separately) such lists of names as they might choose.

[B.C. 14 (a. u. 740)]

[-24-] The next year Marcus Crassus and Gnaeus Cornelius became consuls; and the curule aediles after resigning their office because they had entered upon it under unfavorable auguries took it back again, contrary to precedent, at another meeting of the assembly.  The Portico of Paulus was burned and the fire from it reached the temple of Vesta, so that the sacred objects that this shrine contained were carried up to the Palatine by all of the vestal virgins except the eldest (who had gone blind) and were placed in the house of the priest of Jupiter.  The portico was afterward rebuilt, nominally by AEmilius, who was the representative of the family that had formerly erected it, but really by Augustus and the friends of Paulus.  At this time the Pannonians revolted and were again subdued, and the maritime Alps, inhabited by Ligurians called Cometae and still free even then, were reduced to a slave district.  The revolt in the Cimmerian Bosporus was also quelled.  One Seribonius, who maintained that he was a grandson of Mithridates and had received the kingdom from Augustus after the death of Asander, married the latter’s wife, named Dynamis, who was the daughter of Pharnaces and a grandchild of Mithridates, and obtaining the power committed to her by her husband got control of Bosporus.  Agrippa on being informed of this sent against him Polemon, king of the Pontus near Cappadocia.  He found Seribonius no longer alive, for the people of Bosporus, learning of his ambitions, had killed him beforehand, but when these resisted Polemon out of fear that he might be allowed to reign over them, he engaged them in a set battle.  The victory was his, but he was unable to reduce them to order until Agrippa came to Sinope, apparently with the intention of conducting a campaign against them.  At that they laid down their arms and were delivered to Polemon.  The woman Dynamis became his spouse,—­of course with the sanction of Augustus.  For this outcome sacrifices were made in the name of Agrippa, but he did not celebrate the triumph, though voted to him.  Nay, he did not so much as write the senate anything about what had been accomplished.  As a result subsequent conquerors, taking his method as a law, no longer sent any word themselves to the legislative body and did not accept the celebration of a triumph.  For this reason no one else among his peers (so I am inclined to think) was permitted to do this, but they enjoyed merely the ornament of triumphal honors.