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ALTARS.
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to be sacred from the heroical times till the reign of Tibe-
rius Csesar, who, upon consideration of the many inconve-
niences which must necessarily be the effect of tolerating
so many villains as were always harboured in them, dis-
solved them all, preserving only to Juno Samia and one of
JEsculapius's temples their ancient privileges. Suetonius,
indeed, says, that he did abolish the privileges of asyla in
all parts of the world*. But from Tacitus, a more exact
historian, we learn that the privileges of sanctuaries were
not then wholly taken away, but only regulated and re-
formed f.
* Tiberius, c. xxxvii.
f Anna!, lib. iii. 60—63.
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to be sacred from the heroical times till the reign of Tibe-
rius Csesar, who, upon consideration of the many inconve-
niences which must necessarily be the effect of tolerating
so many villains as were always harboured in them, dis-
solved them all, preserving only to Juno Samia and one of
JEsculapius's temples their ancient privileges. Suetonius,
indeed, says, that he did abolish the privileges of asyla in
all parts of the world*. But from Tacitus, a more exact
historian, we learn that the privileges of sanctuaries were
not then wholly taken away, but only regulated and re-
formed f.
* Tiberius, c. xxxvii.
f Anna!, lib. iii. 60—63.