Identifier: historyofromeromv4p1duru (find matches)
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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odosius, proscribing pagan rites, ashis predecessors had proscribed Christian ceremonies, declared ittreason any Longer to worship the Genii, Lares, and Penates.1 After the battle of Actinm, when it became evident that theRoman world was henceforth to have but one master, the senate decreed that theGenius of Augustusshould be worshippedin the same places asthe Lares.2 This lawwas not only obliga-tory in Eome, butthroughout the pro-vinces, where theemperor took his placeamong the local divini-ties. In the depart-ment of the Allierhave been found twobronze busts represent-ing Augustus andLivia, which were theLares of a small Gallicbuilding.3 This isproved past doubt bythe inscription theybear: V. 8. L. M.(Votum solvit libensmerito). We thus behold Livia (Bronze in the Louvre). Augustus admitted among the domestic gods of his subjects, the master of the worldentering every house for the purpose of dispensing favours fromon high. lie was also associated with the great national divinities.
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Ss\^ *-^. Cod. Theod.fTLVl. \. xii.: Larem igne, mero Oenium, nidore Penates.2 Dion, H. 10.They are now in the Louvre, We know Unit, the Egyptian kings were gods during theirlife, and that the king of Persia called himself Brother of the Sun.—Ed.) THE ADMINISTRATION OF AUGUSTUS IN THE PROVINCES. 21 For, above the Lares and the local gods—the lower classes ofheaven—the western provinces had divinities who were the objectsof a more general veneration. Augustus latinized their names,put side by side thatof the correspondingRoman divinity, andgave out to all theworld that the twowere but one ; for ex-ample, Jupiter-Taranis,Pluto-Teutates, Mars-Camulus, Diana-Arduinna, Minerva-Belisama, and the like,so that conquerors andconquered might alike,without conscientiousscruples, worship sideby side at the samealtars. But these foreigngods, subjects of Romelike their people, wereforced to admit amongthemselves the supremedivinity of the State,the Genius of theemperor. In the ruinsof the imm

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