2. Cf. Chapot, _Les destinées de l'hellénisme au delà l'Euphrate_ (_Mém.
soc. antiq. de France_), 1902, pp. 207 ff.
3. Humbert in Daremberg and Saglio, _Dictionnaire_, s. v. "Amici," I, p.
228 (cf. 160). Cf. Friedländer, _Sittengesch._, I, pp. 202 ff.
4. Cf. _L'Eternité des empereurs romains_ (_Rev. d'hist. et de litt.
relig._, I), 1896, p. 442.
5. Friedländer (_loc. cit._, p. 204) has pointed out several instances
where Augustus borrowed from his distant predecessors the custom of keeping
a journal of the palace, of educating the children of noble families at
court, etc. Certain public institutions were undoubtedly modeled on them;
for instance, the organization of the mails (Otto Hirschfeld,
_Verwaltungsbeamten_, p. 190, n. 2; Rostovtzev, _Klio_, VI, p. 249 (on
angariae)); cf. Preisigke, _Die Ptolemäische Staatspost_ (_Klio_, VII, p.
241), that of the secret police (Friedländer, I, p. 427).--On the Mazdean
_Hvareno_ who became [Greek: Tuchê basileôs], then _Fortuna Augusti_, cf.
_Mon. myst. Mithra_, I, pp. 284 ff.--Even Mommsen (_Röm. Gesch._, V, p.
343), although {262} predisposed to look for the continuity of the Roman
tradition, adds, after setting forth the rules that obtained at the court
of the Parthians: "Alle Ordnungen die mit wenigen Abminderungen bei den
römischen Caesaren wiederkehren und vielleicht zum Teil von diesen der
älteren Grossherrschaft entlehnt sind."--Cf. also _infra_, ch. VIII, n. 19.