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He also entered into relations with the Getae, beyond the Haemus, and garrisoned Apollonia on the Euxine. These operations were all preparatory to his projected attack upon Byzantium. But the immediate subject of the present Speech was the state of affairs in the Chersonese in 342. Soon after the Peace of Philocrates, Athens sent settlers to the Chersonese under Diopeithes.
Feralis, as an adj., is found only in poetry and post-Augustan prose. See Freund. Gothones. Probably the Getae of earlier, and the Goths of later history. See Or. in loc. and Grimm and other authorities as there cited. Adductius. Lit. with tighter rein, with more absolute power cf. His. 3, 7: adductius, quam civili bello, imperitabat.
But it is not the less true, that, at one period of his life, Augustus did certainly meditate some closer personal connection with the royal families of the earth. He speculated, undoubtedly, on a marriage for himself with some barbarous princess, and at one time designed his daughter Julia as a wife for Cotiso, the king of the Getae.
Mark Antony writes, "That he first contracted Julia to his son, and afterwards to Cotiso, king of the Getae , demanding at the same time the king's daughter in marriage for himself." LXIV. He had three grandsons by Agrippa and Julia, namely, Caius, Lucius, and Agrippa; and two grand-daughters, Julia and Agrippina.
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