10: ) he would not have incurred that blame if he had only done what the governors were accustomed to do .-- G.

from W.M.Guizot has been guilty of a still greater inaccuracy in confounding the deification of the living with the apotheosis of the dead emperors.

The nature of the king-worship of Egypt is still very obscure; the hero-worship of the Greeks very different from the adoration of the "praesens numen" in the reigning sovereign .-- M.] [Footnote 22: See a dissertation of the Abbe Mongault in the first volume of the Academy of Inscriptions.] [Footnote 23: Jurandasque tuum per nomen ponimus aras, says Horace to the emperor himself, and Horace was well acquainted with the court of Augustus.

Note: The good princes were not those who alone obtained the honors of an apotheosis: it was conferred on many tyrants.

See an excellent treatise of Schaepflin, de Consecratione Imperatorum Romanorum, in his Commentationes historicae et criticae.