As the ally of Rome he is to send and receive ambassadors ( ib. The following two decrees confirm the privileges granted to Hyrcanus and his children. It ordains that the original ordinances in regard to the high priests of the Jews shall remain in force, and that Hyrcanus and the Jews retain those places and countries which belonged to the kings of Syria and Phenicia. This decree provides for an annual tribute to Hyrcanus and his sons, the Sabbatical yearexcepted. It also prohibits the raising of auxiliaries and the exacting of money for winter quarters within the bounds of Judea. The next decree, dated before Dec., 47 B.C., ordains that all the country of the Jews pay a tribute to the city of Jerusalem except during the Sabbatical year, with permanent exemption for Joppa, which, as formerly, is to belong to them. In another decree of probably the same date, Cæsar determines "That the Jews shall possess Jerusalem, and may encompass that city with walls and that Hyrcanus, the son of Alexander, the high priest and ethnarch of the Jews, retain it in the manner he himself pleases and that the Jews be allowed to deduct out of their tribute, every second year the land is let, a corus of that tribute and that the tribute they pay be not let to farm, nor that they pay always the same tribute" ( ib. In recognition of these services he grants Hyrcanus and the Jews certain privileges (Josephus, "Ant." xiv. He mentions the aid given by Hyrcanus with his 1,500 soldiers in the Alexandrian war, and speaks of the personal valor of Hyrcanus. Julius Cæsar, with the approbation of the senate, recognizes the services rendered by Hyrcanus to the empire, both in peace and in war. The first decree, dated probably July, 47 B.C., registered in both Greek and Latin on a table of brass and preserved in the public records, concerns Hyrcanus, the son of Alexander, high priest and ethnarch of the Jews. Cæsar's attitude toward the Jews is manifest from the many enactments issued in their favor by him and by the senate. (according to Mommsen, 102 B.C.) assassinated March 15, 44 B.C. Finally a copy of the statue was made and placed in the corner of the square.Roman dictator, consul, and conqueror born July 12, 100 B.C. The original statue was re-discovered from its hiding place in the 1950s but was immediately taken into the custody of the military authorities who placed it in the Giulio Cesare barracks, where it still remains. The statue was placed at the foot of Rimini’s tower clock and each year on the Ides of March local fascist organisations would parade.Īt some stage before the liberation of Rimini, the local authorities took the statue away and buried it in a ditch on the Northern outskirts of the town. Mussolini donated a statue of Caesar to the town of Rimini in 1933 (not the one which currently stands), similar to that shown in Rome along the Fori Imperiali. The square, once named Piazza Giulio Cesare in Caeasar’s honour, also has a bronze statue. Stone pillar from the 1500s commemorating the speech said to have been made by Julius Caesar to his troops after his famous crossing of the Rubicon, Rimini, Italy. The most famous monument of the city is of course the three-arched Roman bridge (26 m long and 6 m wide) which recalls this historical event. Today, if you want to cross the Rubicon, you need to go to Italy in the Region of Emilia-Romagna, in Savignano sul Rubicone which is located halfway between Cesena and Rimini, along the Via Emilia and the Bologna-Rimini railway. The distance given in the Tabula of 12 miles from Ariminum (modern-day Rimini), coincides exactly with the distance of the Fiumicino from that city. This theory was not proven until some 58 years later in 1991 when three Italian scholars, using the Tabula Peutingeriana – a medieval copy of a Roman road map – and various ancient sources, were able to prove the location of the original Rubicon. It was not until 1933 that the Fiumicino, which crossed the town of Savignano di Romagna (renamed Rubicone by Mussolini), was identified as the former Rubicon. Three rivers in north-east Italy were successively thought to be the historical Rubicon the Pisciatello, Fiumicino and Uso rivers. The Rubicon has been one of the world’s most famous rivers ever since Julius Caesar crossed it. Last June, I travelled along the Via Aemilia in the footsteps of Julius Caesar, crossing the river and following the soon to be dictator’s path towards Rome. The Green Caesar, Greywacke from Egypt, 1 – 50 AD, Altes Museum Berlin.
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