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Title: History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Duruy, Victor, 1811-1894
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Publisher: London, Paul
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Tomb of Augustus.1 his life, destined to he engraved on tables of bronze on the frontof his mausoleum. This latter we have almost entire in theMonument of Ancyra, and we can read there, if not the honestthought of the founder of the Empire, at least, what he believedto be his titles to contemporary gratitude. On the day of the funeral, the magistrates took the bierupon their shoulders and wended their way through the Forum tothe Campus Martins, where the pyre had been made ready. Restoration by Reynaud, Traite4 d> architecture, pari ii. pi. 1~- 2o
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THE LAST YEARS OF AUGUSTUS. l-)l Behind them were borne three statues of Augustus, clad in thetoga worn on occasion of triumphs, and figures representing hisancestors and all the Eomans who had been illustrious, fromRomulus to Pompey, coming out of their tombs, as it were, toattend him; after these were borne figures representing the con-quered nations, attiredin their costumes; thencame the senators andthe knights, and thenthe matrons, and atintervals in the pro-cession choirs of boysand girls of thenoblest families chant-ing funeral hymns;after these, the soldiersof the praetorian guardand of the urban guard,and, finally, the vastcrowd of the populace.In tin1 Forum twodiscourses in honourthe dead werenounced, one byTiberius, before thetemple of Julius Caesar,the other by Drususfrom the Rostra. The procession en-tered the Campus Mar-tins, passing throughthe Porta Triumphalis, and arrived at the funeral pile, erectedin the form of a square temple four stories in height, the storiesret

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