³⁹ In his report on 29 BC Dio Cassius noted, ‘Caesar [Augustus], besides attending to the general business, gave permission for the dedication of sacred precincts in Ephesus and in Nicaea to Rome and to Caesar, his father, whom he named the hero Julius. These cities had at that time attained chief place in Asia and in Bithynia respectively’ (History 51. 20. 6; trans. Cary).