Note 44 — 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

We can say only that Augustus received this dignity before 738; for there is a coin of that year showing the simpulum, the lituus and the tripod, the symbols respectively of the three foregoing offices, and the patera, or bowl, that of the septemviral office. The four colleges thus associated are the chief ones. Cf. Chap. 9.