latine was consecrated (chapters 1, 2).
How Caesar delivered in the senate a speech as if retiring from the
sovereignty; and thereafter assigned to that body its proper provinces
(chapters 3-12).
About the appointment of the governors sent to the provinces (chapters
13-15).
How Caesar was given the title of Augustus (chapter 16).
About the names which the emperors assume (chapters 17-22).
How the Saepta were consecrated (chapters 23, 24).
How Caesar fought against Astures and Cantabri (chapter 25).
How Gaul began to be governed Romans (chapter 26).
How the Portico of Neptune and the Baths of Agrippa were dedicated
(chapter 27).
How the Pantheon was dedicated (chapter 27).
How Augustus was released from the obligation of obeying the laws
(chapter 28).
How an expedition was made into Arabia Felix (chapters 29-33).
Duration of time six years, in which there were the following magistrates
here enumerated.
Caesar (VI), M. Vipsanius L.F. Agrippa (II). (B.C. 28 = a. u. 726.)
Caesar (VII), M. Vipsanius L.F. Agrippa (III). (B.C. 27 = a. u. 727.)
Caesar Augustus (VIII), T. Statilius T.F. Taurus (II). (B.C. 26 = a. u.
728.)
Augustus (IX), M. lunius M.F. Silanus. (B.C. 25 = a. u. 729.)
Augustus (X), C. Norbanus C.F.C.N. Flaccus. (B.C. 24 = a. u. 730.)
Augustus (XI), Cn. Calpurnius Cn.F.Cn.N. Piso. (B.C. 23 = a. u. 731.)
_(BOOK 53, BOISSEVAIN.)_
[B.C. 28 (_a. u._ 726)]
[-1-] The following year Caesar held office for the sixth time and did
everything according to the usage approved from very early times,
delivering to Agrippa his colleague the bundles of rods which belonged
to an incumbent of the consulship, while he himself used the others. On
completing his term he had the oath administered according to ancestral
custom. Whether he ever did this again I do not know. Agrippa he honored
exceedingly, even going so far as to give him his niece in marriage and
to provide him with a tent similar to his own whenever they went on a
campaign together; and the watchword was given by both of them. At that
particular time besides attending to the ordinary run of business he
finished the taking of the census, in which he was called _Princeps
Senatus_, as had been deemed proper under the real democracy. He further
completed and dedicated the temple of Apollo on the Palatine, the
precinct surrounding it, and the stores of books. And he celebrated in
company with Agrippa the festival in honor of the
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