Note 120 — Below is a copy of the deeds of the divine Augustus, by which he subjected the whole world to the dominion of the Roman people, and of the amounts which he expended upon the commonwealth and the Roman people, as engraved upon two brazen columns which are set up at Rome.1
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Cf. c. 8, Note 49. There were a thousand senators at this time. Augustus, in his statement, probably means that seven hundred of the thousand then in the senate were on his side, not merely seven hundred who then or later were senators.
The number of consulars, eighty-three, is quite consistent with the facts, as is shown in a careful analysis of the Fasti Consulares for the period by Mommsen. R. G., p. 100.
The priests referred to were probably members of the four great colleges and the Arval brotherhood. Cf. c. 7, notes 40-45.