- See above, n. 1.
- Degrassi 1947, no. 1; 1 – 63, 88 – 142.
- Degrassi 1947, 42 – 51, contains the transcript of the columns in this section,
Frag. XXI. - This system is true of the first four of the five tablets, down to 12 b.c.e.: we
return shortly to the significance of the change in the fifth and final tablet. - Similarly, the censors of 131 b.c.e.are annotated as being “the first both to come
from the plebs.” - Wallace-Hadrill 1987, 223; I am particularly indebted to the arguments of
Rüpke (1995a), highlighting the nature of Augustus’s innovations in the consular fasti. - Well pointed out by Rüpke (1995a, 193): ‘Mit der Beifügung der a.u.c.-Daten
verliert die eigentliche Namensliste ihren ohnehin fraglich gewordenen Charakter als
Zeitrechnungsinstrument.” - Bickerman 1980, 78.
- I thank W. S. Anderson for discussion of this point.
- Frier 1999, 204 – 5; Kraus 1994a, 10 n. 44.
- Compare the way that writers other than historians abandon reference to an era
post reges exactosin favor ofab urbe conditain the early Principate: Pinsent 1988, 5
(“perhaps for ideological reasons”). - Purcell 2003, 30, building on the insights of Hanell (1946).
- Here I merely paraphrase the incisive arguments of Bodel (1995, 290 – 92).
- Bodel 1995, 291.
- For related Augustan strategies of diminishing Jupiter in favor of Mars Ultor
(and also Apollo Palatinus), see Feeney 1991, 216 – 17. - Here I follow the clear analysis of Rüpke (1995a, 191 – 92).
- Degrassi 1947, no. 3; 159 – 66.
- Livy 1.44.1 – 2 for Servius Tullius’s institution of the census and lustration. In
the early part of the fasti,the censors are by no means regularly in office every five
years, and the first recorded lustration, for 474 b.c.e., is already the eighth. It is this
haphazard patterning oflustrain so much of the period covered by the fastithat makes
me cautious to accept Rüpke ’s interesting suggestion that an alternative, quasi-
Olympiad dating system is being set up in Augustus’s lists (Rüpke 1995a, 192 – 93): only
in the second half of the third century b.c.e.does something like a regular pattern of
five-year lustrabegin to take hold, and even then it is by no means fixed. - The two crucial changes I am about to discuss were picked out with lapidary
concision by Degrassi (1947, 20), writing of the changes in the last portion of the Fasti
Capitolini: “Qui fasti et diebus quibus consules suffecti inierunt indicatis et tribuniciis
potestatibus Augusti et Tiberii ante consulum nomina positis et scriptura et ratione
uersuum a ceteris longe differunt.” On the subversion of the consular office under the
Principate, see Kraus and Woodman 1997, 94, on Tac. Ann.1.1.1 and 1.81.1 – 2.
notes to pages 172 – 177. 289