Note 172
The Era of Caesar, which in Spain was in legal and popular use till the fourteenth century, begins thirty-eight years before the birth of Christ. I would refer the origin to the general peace by sea and land, which confirmed the power and partition of the Triumvirs (Dion Cassius, l. xlviii. p. 547, 553 {c 28 and 36}. Appian de Bell. Civil. l. v. {c. 72} p. 1034, edit. fol.). Spain was a province of Caesar Octavian; and Tarragona, which raised the first temple to Augustus (Tacit. Annal. i. 78), might borrow from the Orientals this mode of flattery.

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