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" FOOTNOTES: [670] On the esplanade, where the standards, objects of religiousreverence, were planted. See note to c. Vi. Criminals were usuallyexecuted outside the Vallum, and in the presence of a centurion. [671] Probably one of the two mentioned in CLAUDIUS, c. Xiii. [672] A. U. C. 784 or 785. [673] "Distento sago impositum in sublime jactare. " [674] See NERO, c. Xxxv. [675] The Milliare Aureum was a pillar of stone set up at the top of theForum, from which all the great military roads thro...ughout Italy started, the distances to the principal towns being marked upon it. Dio (lib. Liv. ) says that it was erected by the emperor Augustus, when he wascurator of the roads. [676] Haruspex, Auspex, or Augur, denoted any person who foretoldfuturity, or interpreted omens. There was at Rome a body of priests, orcollege, under this title, whose office it was to foretell future events, chiefly from the flight, chirping, or feeding of birds, and from otherappearances. They were of the greatest authority in the Roman state; fornothing of importance was done in public affairs, either at home orabroad, in peace or war, without consulting them.
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