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10 animadverti multa te aedificavisse ct nunc aedificare, reliquo 

 quoque tempore et publicorum et privatorum aedificiorum pro 

 amplitudine rerum gestarum ut posteris memoriae tradantur 

 curam habiturum. conscripsi praescriptiones terminatas, ut 

 eas attendens et ante facta et futura qualia sint opera per 



15 te posses nota habere, namque his voluminibus aperui omnes 

 disciplinae rationes. 



Commentary. 



1. divina tua mens et numen: "your divine intelligence and will." 

 It may be asked whether a writer of the earlier Augustan period would 

 speak of or to the ruler in such language. 12 But the use of the 

 adjective divinus and the substantive numen does not necessarily 

 convey imperial ideas of deification or of the "divinity that doth 

 hedge a king." In fact both words are applied to living Romans in 

 republican Latin. Thus Cicero, speaking to Julius Caesar face to 

 face, used the phrase tua divina virtus (Marc. 26) ; of Pompey he has 

 homo divina quadam mente (Mil. 21), and Pompei divino consilio 

 (Imp. P. 10); he speaks of the ancestors of the Romans as homines 

 divina mente et % consilio praeditos (L. A. 2, 90), and calls Marius 

 and Africanus each a divinum haminem (Sest. 50; Arch. 16; Mur. 75). 

 They were then dead, but to the living Octavian he was still more 

 complimentary; cf. Phil. 5, 43, hunc divinum adulescentem ; 13, 19, 

 Caesaris incredibilis ac divina virtus; 5, 23, C. Caesar divina animi 

 magnitudine ; 3, 3, adidescens, paene potius puer, incredibili ac 

 divina quadam mente atque virtute. And he does not withhold the 

 adjective, with a celestial addition, from the men of certain legions 

 when he says caelestis divinasque legiones (Phil. 5, 28). As for numen, 

 that it does not necessarily imply actual deification or imperial ideas 

 is clear from Cicero again, as where he is speaking to the Roman 

 people: numen vestrum aeque mihi grave et sanctum ac deorum im- 

 mortalium in omni vita jidurum (Post Red. 18, cf. 25, cum, vobis qui 

 apud me deorum immortalium vim et numen tenetis) ; and similarly 

 Phil. 3, 32, magna vis est, magnum numen unum et idem sentientis 

 senatus. In these passages numen implies no more than in Lucretius, 

 3, 144, cetera pars animae . . . ad numen mentis mome?ique movetur. 

 It means no more than "will," although it is a very strong word to 



12 See Wdlfflin in Archiv. fur Lat. Lex., 10, 301 (1896), where in comment- 

 ing on LJssing's first article he says: " Beispielweise muss man zu bestimmen 

 suchen ob tier Yf., wenn er unter Augustus lebte, der Kaiser in der Vorrede 

 anreden konnte rnit der Worte divina tua mens et numen. 





