PLINY: NATURAL HISTORY 



ambitione, et in omnium municipiorum foris statuae 

 ornamentum esse coepere propagarique ^ memoria 

 hominum et honores legendi aevo basibus inscribi, 

 ne in sepulcris tantum legerentur. mox forum et in 

 domibus privatis factum atque in atriis : honos 

 clientium instituit sic colere patronos. 



18 X. Togatae effigies antiquitus ita dicabantur. 

 placuere et nudae tenentes hastam ab epheborum e 

 gymnasiis exemplaribus ; quas Achilleas vocant. 

 Graeca res nihil velare, at contra Romana ac militaris 

 thoraces addere. Caesar quidem dictator loricatam 

 sibi dicari in foro suo passus est. nam Lupercorum 

 habitu tam noviciae sunt quam quae nuper prodiere 

 paenulis indutae. Mancinus eo habitu sibi statuit, 



19 quo deditus fuerat. notatum ab auctoribus et 

 L. Accium poetam in Camenarum aede maxima 

 forma statuam sibi posuisse, cum brevis admodum 

 fuisset. equestres utique statuae Romanam cele- 

 brationem habent, orto sine dubio a Graecis exemplo. 

 sed illi celetas tantum dicabant in sacris victores, 



^ propagarique B : prorogarique rell. 



" Forum Caesaris or Forum Ivlhim was built by Julius 

 Caesar in the eighth region of the city, near the temple of 

 Janus and the old forura, which had become too small, 



* Mancinus, consul 137 B.c, in a war with the Numantines 

 made a treaty which the senate refused to ratify, and he was 

 handed over to the enemy though they refused to receive 

 him, He seems to have regarded this as discreditable to the 

 senate but not to himself, 



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