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Cum Mauri Hispanias prope omnes vastarent, [2] res per legatos bene gestae sunt. et cum per Aegyptum Bucolici milites gravia multa fecissent, per Avidium Cassium retunsi sunt, qui postea tyrannidem arripuit. [3] sub ipsis profectionis diebus in secessu Praenestino agens filium, nomine Verum Caesarem, exsecto sub [4] aure tubere septennem amisit, quem non plus quinque diebus luxit consultusque etiam medios 1 actibus 2 publicis reddidit, et quia ludi Iovis Optimi Maximi [5] erant, interpellari eos publico luctu noluit iussitque, ut statuae tantummodo filio mortuo decernerentur et imago aurea circensibus per pompam ferenda et ut saliari carmini nomen eius insereretur. [6] Instante sane adhuc pestilentia et deorum cultum diligentissime restituit et servos, quemadmodum bello Punico factum fuerat, ad militiam paravit, quos voluntarios [7] exemplo volonum appellavit, armavit etiam gladiatores, quos obsequentes appellavit, latrones etiam Dalmatiae atque Dardaniae milites fecit. armavit et Diogmitas. emit et Germanorum auxilia [8] contra Germanos, omni praeterea diligentia paravit legiones ad Germanicum et Marcomannicum bellum. [9] et, ne provincialibus esset molestus, auctionem rerum aulicarum, ut diximus, fecit in foro divi Traiani, in qua praeter vestes et pocula et vasa aurea etiam signa [10] cum tabulis magnorum artificum vendidit. Marcomannos in ipso transitu Danuvii delevit et praedam 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
2 Thus Peter with Lipsius; consolatusque etiam medicos P.
3 Probably the Ludi Capitolini, held on 15 October.
4 Germanicus' name had been similarly inserted in this song after his death; see Tac, Ann., ii. 82.
5 See c. xiii. 3.
6 The name given to the slaves who volunteered for military service after the defeat at Cannae in the Second Punic War; see Livy, xxii. 57, 11, and Festus, p. 370.
7 The district east of southern Dalmatia; it is now the southern portion of the kingdom of Serbia.
8 The Diogmitai were the military police maintained by the Greek cities. They were also called upon to perform military service—the suppression of brigands—in 368; see Amm. Marc, xxvii. 9, 6.
9 These new legions were named Legio II Pia and Legio
Scriptores Historiae Augustae, Vol 1. David Magie. Ainsworth O'Brien-Moore. Susan Helen Ballou. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1921. OCR cleanup.
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