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Divus Augustus

Divus Augustus Suetonius
39 With the assistance of ten senators, he obliged each of the Roman knights to give an account of his life: in regard to those who fell under his displeasure, some were punished; others had a mark of infamy set against their names. The most part he only reprimanded, but not in the same terms. The mildest mode of reproof was by delivering them tablets,Pugillaria were a kind of pocket-book, so called, because memorandums were written or impinged by the styli, on their waxed surface. They appear to have been of very ancient origin, for we read of them in Homer under the name of πίνακεσ— Il. 6.169 γράψασ ἐν πίνακι πτυκτῷ θυμοφθόρα Writing dire things upon his tablet's roll. the contents of which, confined to themselves, they were to read on the spot. Some he disgraced for borrowing money at low interest, and letting it out again upon usurious profit.

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