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Book 1 (continued)

Vol. I
p407 Note D
The Altar of Victory

It may be a convenience to the reader to have the chief events of the long and stubborn controversy in reference to the Altar of Victory presented in the form of a summary.

Altar of Victory placed in the Senate-house by Augustus after the battle of Actium, B.C. 29; removed by Constantius during his visit to Rome, A.D. 357; replaced by Julian, 360‑363; removed by Gratian, possibly in 376, but more probably in 382; embassy of Symmachus and other Roman nobles to remonstrate against the removal; influenced by Pope Damasus, Gratian refuses them an audience, 382; petition of the Senate for the restoration of the altar, 384; first letter of St. Ambrose to Valentinian II against this petition; Relatio of Symmachus, pleading with Theodosius for the restoration of the altar; second letter of St. Ambrose replying to the Relatio, 384; renewed embassies of the Senate to Theodosius and Valentinian II (Ambrose, Epistol. 57.4), circa 391 and 392; the altar restored by Eugenius, 393 (Paulinus, Vita Ambrosii, 26); doubtless finally removed by Theodosius after the overthrow of Eugenius, 395. But this is not expressly stated by the historians.

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