Sardis urged a later authority,
namely, a grant from the Great Alexander; and Miletus insisted on one from
King Darius: as to the deities of these two cities; one worshipped Diana;
the other, Apollo. And Crete too demanded the privilege of sanctuary, to a
statue of the deified Augustus." Hence diverse orders of Senate were made,
by which, though great reverence was expressed towards the deities, yet
the extent of the sanctuaries was limited; and the several people were
enjoined "to hang up in each temple the present decree engraven in brass,
as a sacred memorial, and a restraint against their lapsing, under the
colour of religion, into the abuses and claims of superstition."
At the same time, a vehement distemper having seized Livia, obliged the
Emperor to hasten his return to Rome; seeing hitherto the mother and son
lived in apparent unanimity; or perhaps mutually disguised their hate:
for, not long before, Livia, having dedicated a statue to the deified
Augustus, near the theatre of Marcellus, had the name of Tiberius
inscribed after her own. This he was believed to have resented heinously,
as a degrading the dignity of the Prince; but to have buried his
resentment under dark dissimulation.
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