ancestors and their solid municipal tradition at Velitrae. Legislation was passed to visit severe penalties on adultery, agents and accessories as well as the guilty parties themselves.
Marriage and the procreation of children to restock the human wealth of Italy were encouraged by a blend of 'stick and carrot', penalties for the celibate and rewards for the
philoprogenitive. Measures were taken to restrict ostentatious private extravagance and to check licence at public shows. Historic noble names, some half-buried in the mists of time,
adorned the consulship (though the consulship was not itself normally a preliminary to a great military command, for Augustus prudently reserved such appointments in the
provinces under his direct command to close relatives or 'new men' in whose competence and loyalty he could trust).
The 'Tablinum' In The So-Called House Of Livia on the Palatine in Rome. Painted about 30 BC in the late Second Style, this house almost certainly formed part of the properties
owned by Augustus, properties whose modesty (by the standards of later Emperors) was commented upon by Suetonius.
The public dignity and display of the senatorial and equestrian orders were actively promoted. The older and more respectable guilds were encouraged, and Rome itself was
organized in fourteen 'regions', subdivided in turn into 'districts' (uici) with their own local officers (uicomagistri). The realization and exaltation of a united Italy was nurtured with
an ever-increasing number of Italians entering the Senate and other levels of government service, civil and military, and a continuing move towards a greater uniformity in municipal
institutions. New building and traffic regulations, a new Board of Public Works, the creation of a Metropolitan Police Force and Fire Brigade, a Water Board to ensure the needs of a