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Part of Augustus’ discourse in the Res Gestae reviews the numerous legationes-embassies he received. Their mention served to mark the borders of the empire and to highlight its vastness.2 Yet, from the viewpoint of what could be considered as Rome’s international relations, a new phase was actually set during which the intensity of diplomacy between Rome and the various communities it was related to (as a result of territorial expansion), as well as Rome’s control over her boundaries, considerably decreased. The peak of diplomatic exchange had been reached in the Republican period in the second century BC. It noticeably declined from the first century BC onwards. Within the empire, once the conquest was completed, political communication with Rome was arranged differently. This, at any rate, is the viewpoint of modern historiography which makes a clear distinction between diplomacy, as a tool of external relations between sovereign states on the one hand, and political communication, intended at shaping internal relationships within a state on the other.3 However, from a Roman point of view, at least in terms of wording, the situation did not change much as Romans did not differentiate between diplomacy and political communication: to them it invariably consisted of the dispatch of a legatio, a mission.4 This approach, closer to modern considerations

Diplomatic Mobility and Persuasion between Rome and the West (I–II AD)