[Footnote 1:  Pliny (Natural History VI, 181) calls him Publius.]

[Footnote 2:  Readings and punctuation from Dindorf.]

[Footnote 3:  Augustus returned to Rome October twelfth, and the temple in question was consecrated December fifteenth.]

[Footnote 4:  Boissevain here amends to [Greek:  ’epelpisas]]

[Footnote 5:  In the matter of the spelling of this name the weight of authority prefers Licinus.  Dio’s form is less correct.]

[Footnote 6:  I. e., the lacus Venetus.]

[Footnote 7:  This eminence with its villa appropriately bore the Greek title Pausilypon (Grief’s Surcease), a compound word like our modern names Heartsease, Sans Souci, etc.  It is the modern “Hill of Posilipo.”]

[Footnote 8:  English, Twenty Men; their regular title.]

[Footnote 9:  Latin, Viginti Sex Viri.]

[Footnote 10:  The words “certain honors” are supplied on the suggestion of Boissevain.  Boissee and others, who surmise that the text here contains a lacuna]

[Footnote 11:  I. e., at the time of the Feriae.]

[Footnote 12:  The reading [Greek:  agoranomos] is generally preferred here to [Greek:  asotunmos]]

DIO’S

ROMAN HISTORY

55

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

How Drusus died (chapters 1, 2).

How the Precinct of Livia was consecrated (chapter 8)

How the Campus Agrippae was consecrated (chapter 8)

How the Diribitorium was consecrated (chapter 8).

How Tiberius retired to Rome (chapter 11).

How the Forum of Augustus was consecrated (chapter 12).

How the Temple of Mars therein was consecrated (chapter 12).

How Lucius Caesar and Gaius Caesar died (chapters 11, 12).

How Augustus adopted Tiberius (chapter 13).

How Livia urged Augustus to rule more mercifully (chapters 14-22).

About the legions and how men were appointed to manage the military fund (chapters 23-25).

How the night-watchmen[1] were appointed (chapter 26).

How Tiberius fought against the Dalmatians and Pannonians (chapters 28-34).

Duration of time, 17 years, in which there were the following magistrates here enumerated: 

Nero Claudius Tib.  F. Drusus, T. Quinctius T. F. Crispinus. (B.C. 9 = a. u. 745.)

C. Marcius L. F. Censorinus, C. Asinius C. F. Gallus. (B.C. 8 = a. u. 746.)

Tib.  Claudius Tib.  F. Nero (II), Cn.  Calpurnius Cn.  F. Piso. (B.C. 7 = a. u. 747.)

Decimus Laelius Decimi F. Balbus, C. Antistius C. F. Veter. (B.C. 6 = a. u. 748.)

Augustus (XII), L. Cornelius P. F. Sulla. (B.C. 5 = a. u. 749.)

C. Calvisius C. F. Sabinus (II), L. Passienus Rufus (B.C. 4 = a. u. 750.)