For lending for three years to such as needed it fifteen hundred
  myriads of denarii, without interest, he was praised and reverenced
  by all.

Once, when a fire destroyed the palace, and many persons offered him large amounts, he would take nothing except an aureus from the various peoples and a denarius from single individuals.  The name aureus, which I give here, is a local term for a piece of money worth twenty-five denarii.[9] Some of the Greeks also, whose books we read for acquiring a pure Attic style, give it this name.  When Augustus had restored his dwelling he made all of it public property, either because of the contributions made by the people or because he was high priest and wished to live in a building both private and public.

[-13-] The people urged Augustus very strongly to rescind the sentence of exile passed upon his daughter, but he answered that fire would mix with water before she should be brought back.  And the populace did throw a good deal of fire into the Tiber.  For the time being they accomplished nothing, but later they brought such pressure to bear that she was at last moved from the island to the mainland.

  And later the outbreak of war with the Celtae found Augustus worn
  out in body (by reason of old age and sickness) and incapable of taking
  the field.  Yielding, then, partly to the requirements of the situation
  and partly to the persuasions of Julia[10] (who had already been restored
  from banishment)
he both adopted Tiberius and sent him out[11] against the Celtae, granting him the tribunician authority for ten years.

[A.D. 4 (a. u. 757)]

Yet suspecting that he might lose his head and fearing a possible insurrection he adopted for him also his nephew Germanicus, though Tiberius himself had a son.  After this he took courage, and feeling that he had successors and supporters, he became desirous to organize the senate once more.  So he nominated the ten senators whom he most honored and appointed three of them, selected by lot, to be scrutinizers.  There were not many, however, who either imposed sentence on themselves beforehand,—­permission being given them to do so, just as previously,—­or were retired against their will.

This business, then, was managed by others.  The emperor himself took a census of the inhabitants of Italy possessing property valued at not less than five myriad denarii.  The weaker citizens and those dwelling outside of Italy he did not compel to undergo the taking of a census, for he feared that they might be disturbed and show insubordination of some sort.  And in order that he might not seem to be acting in the capacity of censor (for the reason I mentioned before) [12] he assumed proconsular powers for the purpose of completing the census and accomplishing the purification.  And inasmuch as many of the young men of the senatorial class and of the equestrian, as well, had grown poor though not at fault for it themselves, he made up to most of them the required amount of property, and in the case of some eighty increased it to thirty myriads.