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The Roman conquest; but an effect that neither Caesar, nor any other man
of his times had foreseen or willed, but which Augustus was first to
recognise in the winter of 15-14 B.C., and to which, astute man that he
was, he gave heed as he ought; that is, not as due his own merit, but as
an unexpected piece of good fortune. I have already said that one of the
greatest cares of Augustus, as soon as the civil wars were finished, was
to reorganise the finances of the Empire; that to find new entries for
the treasury, he had turned his attention in 27 B.C. to the province
conquered by his father, regarding it merely from the common point of
view, as poor and of little worth like the other European territories.
Then, at a stroke, he realised that that territory so lightly valued,
was producing grain like Egypt, linen like Egypt; that the arts of
civilisation for which Egypt was so rich and famous were beginning to
prosper there! Augustus was not the man to let slip so tremendous a
piece of good luck. Until then he had hesitated, like one who seeks his
way; in that winter from 15-14 B.C., he found finally the grand climax
of his career, to make Gaul the Egypt of the West, the province of the
greatest revenues in Europe. From that time on to the end of his life,
he did not move from Europe; he lived between Italy and Gaul. Like him,
Tiberius, Drusus, all the men of his family, devoted all their efforts
to Gaul, to consolidating Roman dominion there, to advancing its
progress, to increasing th
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