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Augustus' popularity across the empire. His death (14 CE)

(1) Scythae et Indī: In his autobiographical inscription Res Gestae, Augustus himself boasts that:

quibus anteā Rōmānōrum nōmen incognitum fuerat: quibus is dative object of incognitum

(2) Galatia: Galatia was under the administrative rule of Marcus Lollius

sub hōc: refers to Augustus

prō praetōre: "as propraetor" (Bird), see propraetor.

(3) Tantō autem amōre ... fuit: "he was (regarded) with such great affection." tantō signals the following result clause (AG 537) ut ... conderent.

quās Caesarēās nōminārent: the verb is attracted into the subjunctive as being notionally part of the idea of the surrounding result clause. Contrast quae nunc urbs est clarissima, where the indicative shows it is Eutropius' added comment.

(4) ut eī obsequerentur: "to pay their respects to him," with the notion of some kind of show of deference or submission. Purpose clause (AG 531) using a compound verb that takes a dative object (AG 370).

(5) Moriēns: Augustus died in 14 CE.

dīvus appellātus: supply est; i.e., he was deified and became the object of a national worship. In the provinces he was worshipped before his death (Hazzard; See Smith, apotheosis).

Tiberiō successōrī: Tiberius Claudius Nero was the son of Tiberius Nero and Livia, the third wife of Augustus. He first married the daughter of Agrippa, whom he divorced at the command of the Emperor and married Julia, Augustus' daughter and the widow of Marcus Agrippa. After the death of Gaius and Lucius Caesar, the sons of Agrippa and Julia, Tiberius was given the tribunician power and was adopted by Augustus as his successor (Hazzard).