15. In the year of Rome 701, the temple of Isis and Serapis
was demolished by the order of the Senate (Dion Cassius, 1.
xl. p. 252), and even by the hands of the consul (Valerius
Maximus, 1, 3) After the death of Caesar, it was restored at
the public expense (Dion, 1. xlvii. p. 501). When Augustus
was in Egypt, he revered the majesty of Serapis (Dion, l.
ii. p. 647;) but in the Pomaerium of Rome, and a mile round
it, he prohibited the worship of the Egyptian gods (Dion. l.
liii. p. 679 1. liv. p. 735). They remained, however, very
fashionable under his reign (Ovid. de Art. Amand l. i.) and
that of his successor, till the justice of Tiberius was
provoked to some acts of severity. (Tacit. Annal. ii. 85.
Joseph. Antiquit. 1. xviii. c. 3.)