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Companion to Roman history (1912)

Jones, Henry Stuart, 1867-1939 · Oxford : Clarendon · leaf 306

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stus the same honours were paidto him ; but, more than this, a college of sodales Augustales wasinstituted, which is expressly designated as a priesthood of theJulian gens, and included amongst its original members Tiberius,Drusus,Claudius, and Germanicus. On this analogy sodales Fhivialeswere… … 290 RELIGION chap, iv were, however, the last gentile college of this kind. Not only-emperors, but other members of their families, especially theirwives, attained the honour of consccratio. The ceremony of apothe-osis often—though not always—coincided with the funeral of theemperor. The base of…

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