Deeds of the Divine Augustus

Glossary

• Achaia Greece
• arval brother one of the twelve priests who made sacrifices to ensure good harvests (from the Latin arvum, meaning “field”)
• Chalcidium committee room adjacent to the curia
• coronary gold coins of the empire made from the gold crowns worn by victorious commanders in their triumphs
• fetial priest person responsible for declaring war and offering the enemy the chance to save themselves by capitulation before hostilities began
• Illyricum province of the Roman Empire in the present-day Balkans
• Jupiter Feretrius … Jupiter Tonans … Jupiter Libertas epithets, or names, applied to the Roman's chief god, Jupiter
• Mars Ultor an epithet of the Roman god of war
• quindecimvirs an ancient Roman priesthood charged with keeping the sacred books that were consulted in national emergencies
• Salian hymn song sung during the procession of the Salii (dancers), an obscure and ancient Roman priesthood
• sodalis Titius priesthood dedicated to worship of the mythical Sabine king Titus revived by Augustus to worship the Roman emperors
• whom fortune snatched away from me a reference to the early deaths of the two boys