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Cassius Dio, Roman History, 51.22.1
nan After finishing this celebration Caesar dedicated the temple of Minerva, called also the Chalcidicum, and the Curia Iulia, which had been built in honour of his father. In the latter he set up the statue of Victory which is still in existence, thus signifying that it was from her that he had received the empire.

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1. Cicero, On Divination, 1.101 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 1.101. Saepe etiam et in proeliis Fauni auditi et in rebus turbidis veridicae voces ex occulto missae esse dicuntur; cuius generis duo sint ex multis exempla, sed maxuma: Nam non multo ante urbem captam exaudita vox est a luco Vestae, qui a Palatii radice in novam viam devexus est, ut muri et portae reficerentur; futurum esse, nisi provisum esset, ut Roma caperetur. Quod neglectum tum, cum caveri poterat, post acceptam illam maximam cladem expiatum est; ara enim Aio Loquenti, quam saeptam videmus, exadversus eum locum consecrata est. Atque etiam scriptum a multis est, cum terrae motus factus esset, ut sue plena procuratio fieret, vocem ab aede Iunonis ex arce extitisse; quocirca Iunonem illam appellatam Monetam. Haec igitur et a dis significata et a nostris maioribus iudicata contemnimus? 1.101. Again, we are told that fauns have often been heard in battle and that during turbulent times truly prophetic messages have been sent from mysterious places. Out of many instances of this class I shall give only two, but they are very striking. Not long before the capture of the city by the Gauls, a voice, issuing from Vestas sacred grove, which slopes from the foot of the Palatine Hill to New Road, was heard to say, the walls and gates must be repaired; unless this is done the city will be taken. Neglect of this warning, while it was possible to heed it, was atoned for after the supreme disaster had occurred; for, adjoining the grove, an altar, which is now to be seen enclosed with a hedge, was dedicated to Aius the Speaker. The other illustration has been reported by many writers. At the time of the earthquake a voice came from Junos temple on the citadel commanding that an expiatory sacrifice be made of a pregt sow. From this fact the goddess was called Juno the Adviser. Are we, then, lightly to regard these warnings which the gods have sent and our forefathers adjudged to be trustworthy?
2. Pliny The Elder, Natural History, 9.119-9.121, 35.131-35.132 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
3. Plutarch, Julius Caesar, 11.6 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
4. Plutarch, Fabius, 22.6 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 22.6. However, he removed the colossal statue of Heracles from Tarentum, and set it up on the Capitol, and near it an equestrian statue of himself, in bronze. He thus appeared far more eccentric in these matters than Marcellus, nay rather, the mild and humane conduct of Marcellus was thus made to seem altogether admirable by contrast, as has been written in his Life. Chapter xxi. Marcellus had enriched Rome with works of Greek art taken from Syracuse in 212 B.C. Livy’s opinion is rather different from Plutarch’s: sed maiore animo generis eius praeda abstinuit Fabius quam Marcellus, xxvii. 16. Fabius killed the people but spared their gods; Marcellus spared the people but took their gods.
5. Plutarch, Pompey, 2.2, 46.1 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
6. Suetonius, Augustus, 7.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
7. Suetonius, Iulius, 7.1 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
8. Suetonius, Nero, 25.1 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
9. Tacitus, Annals, 2.73 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 2.73.  His funeral, devoid of ancestral effigies or procession, was distinguished by eulogies and recollections of his virtues. There were those who, considering his personal appearance, his early age, and the circumstances of his death, — to which they added the proximity of the region where he perished, — compared his decease with that of Alexander the Great: — "Each eminently handsome, of famous lineage, and in years not much exceeding thirty, had fallen among alien races by the treason of their countrymen. But the Roman had borne himself as one gentle to his friends, moderate in his pleasures, content with a single wife and the children of lawful wedlock. Nor was he less a man of the sword; though he lacked the other's temerity, and, when his numerous victories had beaten down the Germanies, was prohibited from making fast their bondage. But had he been the sole arbiter of affairs, of kingly authority and title, he would have overtaken the Greek in military fame with an ease proportioned to his superiority in clemency, self-command, and all other good qualities." The body, before cremation, was exposed in the forum of Antioch, the place destined for the final rites. Whether it bore marks of poisoning was disputable: for the indications were variously read, as pity and preconceived suspicion swayed the spectator to the side of Germanicus, or his predilections to that of Piso.
10. Cassius Dio, Roman History, 43.14.6, 43.21.2, 51.17.6, 51.22.2-51.22.3, 68.29.1, 68.30.1 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) 43.14.6.  And they decreed that a chariot of his should be placed on the Capitol facing the statue of Jupiter, that his statue in bronze should be mounted upon a likeness of the inhabited world, with an inscription to the effect that he was a demigod, and that his name should be inscribed upon the Capitol in place of that of Catulus on the ground that he had completed this temple after undertaking to call Catulus to account for the building of it. 43.21.2.  On this occasion, too, he climbed up the stairs of the Capitol on his knees, without noticing at all either the chariot which had been dedicated to Jupiter in his honour, or the image of the inhabited world lying beneath his feet, or the inscription upon it; but later he erased from the inscription the term "demigod. 51.17.6.  So much for these events. In the palace quantities of treasure were found. For Cleopatra had taken practically all the offerings from even the holiest shrines and so helped the Romans swell their spoils without incurring any defilement on their own part. Large sums were also obtained from every man against whom any charge of misdemeanour were brought. 51.22.2.  It had belonged to the people of Tarentum, whence it was now brought to Rome, placed in the senate-chamber, and decked with the spoils of Egypt. The same course was followed in the case of the shrine of Julius which was consecrated at this time 51.22.3.  for many of these spoils were placed in it also; and others were dedicated to Jupiter Capitolinus and to Juno and Minerva, after all the objects in these temples which were supposed to have been placed there previously as dedications, or were actually dedications, had by decree been taken down at this time as defiled. Thus Cleopatra, though defeated and captured, was nevertheless glorified, inasmuch as her adornments repose as dedications in our temples and she herself is seen in gold in the shrine of Venus. 68.29.1.  Then he came to the ocean itself, and when he had learned its nature and had seen a ship sailing to India, he said: "I should certainly have crossed over to the Indi, too, if I were still young." For he began to think about the Indi and was curious about their affairs, and he counted Alexander a lucky man. Yet he would declare that he himself had advanced farther than Alexander, and would so write to the senate, although he was unable to preserve even the territory that he had subdued. 68.30.1.  Trajan learned of this at Babylon; for he had gone there both because of its fame — though he saw nothing but mounds and stones and ruins to justify this — and because of Alexander, to whose spirit he offered sacrifice in the room where he had died. When he learned of the revolt, he sent Lusius and Maximus against the rebels.
11. Strabo, Geography, 12.3.31 12.3.31. Here, also, is Kainon Chorion, as it is called, a rock that is sheer and fortified by nature, being less than two hundred stadia distant from Cabeira. It has on its summit a spring that sends forth much water, and at its foot a river and a deep ravine. The height of the rock above the neck is immense, so that it is impregnable; and it is enclosed by remarkable walls, except the part where they have been pulled down by the Romans. And the whole country around is so overgrown with forests, and so mountainous and waterless, that it is impossible for an enemy to encamp within one hundred and twenty stadia. Here it was that the most precious of the treasures of Mithridates were kept, which are now stored in the Capitolium, where they were dedicated by Pompey. Pythodoris possesses the whole of this country, which is adjacent to the barbarian country occupied by her, and also Zelitis and Megalopolitis. As for Cabeira, which by Pompey had been built into a city and called Diospolis, Pythodoris further adorned it and changed its name to Sebaste; and she uses the city as a royal residence. It has also the sanctuary of Men of Pharnaces, as it is called, — the village-city Ameria, which has many temple servants, and also a sacred territory, the fruit of which is always reaped by the ordained priest. And the kings revered this sanctuary so exceedingly that they proclaimed the royal oath as follows: By the Fortune of the king and by Men of Pharnaces. And this is also the sanctuary of Selene, like that among the Albanians and those in Phrygia, I mean that of Men in the place of the same name and that of Men Ascaeus near the Antiocheia that is near Pisidia and that of Men in the country of the Antiocheians.

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
alexander the great,his cloak	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 134
anaglypha traiani	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 115
apelles,the birth of venus	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 28
athenaeum (close to curia julia)	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 115
atrium minervae	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 115
augustus,and marc antony	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 134
augustus,conquest of egypt	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 134
augustus,his chariot	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 134
augustus,title	Ando (2013), Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire, 282
aurelian,triumph over goths	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 134
aurelian,triumph over zenobia	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 134
beneventum	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 115
chalcidicum	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 115
chamberlin,wilt	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 28
chariots,of mithridates	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 134
chariots,of the king of the goths	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 134
chariots	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 134
cleopatra,and the spoils of egypt	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 28, 134
cleopatra,her pearl earrings	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 28, 134
cornelius scipio aemilianus,p.,and alexander the great	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 28
curia julia,,adjacent buildings	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 115
curia julia,,development	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 115
domitian,,repairs curia	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 115
germanicus caesar,and alexander	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 28
goths	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 134
graecostasis	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 115
hooper-greenhill,e.	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 28
identity,construction of	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 28
julius caesar,c.,his chariot	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 134
julius caesar,c.,image in jupiter capitolinus temple	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 134
jupiter,capitolinus	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 134
mithridates	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 134
museum,and british identity	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 28
museum,as an agent for social control	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 28
nero,tours and pillages greece	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 134
nicias,his portrait of alexander the great	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 28
objects,and context	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 28
objects,and meaning	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 28
objects,and power	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 28
pompey the great,and alexander	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 28
pompey the great,his triumph over mithridates	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 134
reagan,nancy	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 28
rome,pantheon	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 28, 134
rome,temple of divus augustus,victoria in	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 28
rome,temple of divus julius,adorned with spoils of egypt	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 134
rome,temple of jupiter capitolinus,adorned with spoils of egypt	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 28, 134
rome,temple of jupiter capitolinus	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 134
rome,temple of mars ultor	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 134
san adriano,church of	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 115
senaculum	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 115
senate,in latin and greek,,meeting places	Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 115
tarentum	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 134
trajan,and alexander the great	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 28
trajan	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 28
triumph,and chariots	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 134
triumphator	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 134
venus,in the pantheon	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 28, 134
vesta,sacred grove of	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 28
victoria,statuary of	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 134
victory,iconography of'	Ando (2013), Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire, 282
vipsanius agrippa,m.,his pantheon	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 134