Sta,—Mr. C. A. Weekes, in your issue of May 8th
asks leave to " recall to some of your correspondents that Rome at her best, e.g., under Augustus, could find no better title for him than—' God.' " I will not attempt to disentangle the many threads of error which he has managed to twine into this remarkable statement—which, by the way, professes merely to remind us of a well-known fact. But may I " recall " to him that Augustus never was called " God "—or even a god, for that matter —during his lifetime by the religious authorities of the Roman State, of whom he was himself for more than a quarter of a century the official chief? The ruler cult of Imperial Rome, in its many forms and its com- plicated development, is an interesting subject, and may have its rele- vance to the questions under discussion in this correspondence; but
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