[Footnote 172: The Era of Caesar, which in Spain was in
legal and popular use till the fourteenth century, begins
thirty-eight years before the birth of Christ. I would refer
the origin to the general peace by sea and land, which
confirmed the power and partition of the Triumvirs (Dion
Cassius, l. xlviii. p. 547, 553 {c 28 and 36}. Appian de
Bell. Civil. l. v. {c. 72} p. 1034, edit. fol.). Spain was a
province of Caesar Octavian; and Tarragona, which raised the
first temple to Augustus (Tacit. Annal. i. 78), might borrow
from the Orientals this mode of flattery.]