Note 078
From Chapter 22 of the Decline & Fall

Quae paulo ante arida et siti anhelantia visebantur, ea nunc perlui, mundari, madere; Fora Deambulacra, Gymnasia, leetis et gaudentibus populis frequentari; dies festos, et celebrari veteres, et novos in honorem principis consecrari (Mamertin. xi. [x.] 9).

He particularly restored the city of Nicopolis, and the Actiac games, which had been instituted by Augustus.

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