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A C H I E V E M E N T S OF T H E D I V I N E A U G U S T U S 29 Sacred Way, the temple of the Di Penates in the Velia, the temple of Youth, and the temple of the Great Mother on the Palatine. 2 0 I restored the Capitol and the theatre of Pompey, both works at great expense without inscribing m y own n a m e on either. 2 I restored the channels of the aqueducts, which in several places were falling into disrepair through age, and I brought water from a new spring into the aqueduct called Marcia, doubling the supply.
But he claims to have held the power for ten consecutive years. Even this claim is somewhat economical of the truth, since it ignores what is a fact on this hypothesis, that the legal term expired before formal renewal and that the gap was only made good by retroactive legislation. But this kind of omission is venial and characteristic of Augustus. On the other hand, if the other view is right, his statement is not only untruthful but a purposeless He, since the facts would have been well known to his readers.
The greater celebrations of triumphs were on 13-15 August, 29 (EJ, p. 50); Octavian triumphed on three successive days for his victories in Dalmatia (in 34-3), at Actium and in Egypt; he treated the war of 31/0 as one with a foreign enemy, the Queen of Egypt. ) and in 8 BC for victories of Tiberius in Germany. g. in 13 BC. Fasces were bundles of wooden rods, bound with a red strap, and including an axe. They symbolized the authority at first of the king, and then of those magistrates who possessed imperium; inside Rome the axe was removed to show that the magistrates did not have power of life and death over the citizens.