Latin Historical Inscriptions Illustrating the History of the Early Empire
Latin Historical Inscriptions Illustrating the History of the Early Empire
G Mcn Gordon Mcneil Rushforth
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Pliny, H. N. 16. 201. Prof. Mayor on Juvenal, 12. 75, and cf. The references given below at the end of the section. The work was undertaken by Claudius in the second year of his reign (Dio Cass. 1. C), and No. 74 shows that it was still in progress in A. D. 46, but the undated coins of Nero with the legend : Fortius) Ost{iensis) Angusti and a repre- sentation of the harbour (Eckhel, vi. 276. Cohen, i. P. 280. '^'^ sqq. ) mean that it was completed by his successor. It was //. ROME AND ITALY. 93... thenceforward known as the Portus August!, a title which has no reference to any supposed share of Augustus in the design {C. I. L. Xiv. P. 6, note 2), but was probably chosen by Nero or his subordinates (as suggested in C. I. L. Xiv. P. 6, note 4) in order to deprive Claudius of the honour of giving his name to the work. The new harbour was far from being a safe anchorage in all weathers, for in A. D. 62 we hear of ships being lost portii i7t ipso (Tac. Ann. 15. 18. 3), and the inner harbour constructed by Trajan was intended to remedy this defect.
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