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grbs-10211	Zetzel, James E. G.	New Light on Gaius Caesar’s Eastern Campaign	1970	8	.pdf	application/pdf	3559	164	69	Whereas Publius Cornelius Scipio, quaestor pro praetore, being endowed with unsurpassed goodwill towards Augustus and his whole house, having made one very great and highly honorific vow, to preserve him (Augustus) safe for all time, as is shown by his deeds on every occasion, has performed the Caesarea without falling short at all in respect to cost or dis­ play or gratitude to the gods for the sacrifices to Augustus, and at the same time causing most of the cities in the province to do the same with him; and later learning that Gaius the son of Augustus, who was fighting against the bar­ barians for the safety of all mankind, was well and had avenged himself upon the barbarians, having escaped dan­ gers, (Scipio) being overjoyed at such good news directed everyone to wear crowns and to sacrifice, being untroubled and undisturbed, and he himself sacrificed an ox for Gaius' safety, and was lavish in varied spectacles, so that what took place then rivalled what had come before, but the solemnity remained balanced; and he made a great effort, in leaving two days off of the days of Caesar's festival, to begin the sacri­ fices for Gaius on the day on which he (Gaius) was first desig­ nated consul; and he instructed us to observe this day annually with sacrifices and crown-wearing as joyously and ... as possible; therefore, the council approved on the fifteenth day before the Kalends of ... JAMES E. G. ZETZEL 261 It was therefore Gaius who reached Syria in 1 B.C. with proconsular imperium over the eastern provinces.	cache/grbs-10211.pdf	txt/grbs-10211.txt