Note 15 — 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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The Lex Pedia, Sept., 711, named from Augustus’ colleague in the consulship, constituted an extraordinary tribunal for this class of offenders: the penalty was interdiction from fire and water, i. e., outlawry. Livy, Ep. CXX; Vell. II, 69; App. III, 95; Suet. Aug. 10; Dio XLVI, 49.