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Then coming to Rome and entering it, he appeared in the senate, and addressed the people at The Palm,A name apparently used from the fifth or sixth century for the area at Rome lying between the Curia and the arch of Septimius Severus; undoubtedly the same as the Palma Aurea of Fulgentius, Acta S. Fulgenti, in Acta Sanctorum, i. p. 37, ch. 13, Jan. promising that with God’s help he would keep inviolate whatever the former Roman emperors had decreed.
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In celebration of his tricennaliaTheodoric was in the eighth year of his reign and the Decennalia were sometimes celebrated ahead of time. Hadr. Valesius proposed to read decennalem for tricennalem. he entered the Palace in a triumphal procession for the entertainment of the people, and exhibited games in the Circus for the Romans. To the Roman people and to the poor of the city he gave each year a hundred and twenty thousand measures of grain, and for the restoration of the Palace and seu perhaps = et; see note 1. the rebuilding of the walls of the city he ordered two hundred pounds to be given each year from the chest that contained the tax on wine.
