Monumentum Ancyranum: The Deeds of AugustusAugustus, Emperor of Rome
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Monumentum Ancyranum: The Deeds of Augustus
Augustus, Emperor of Rome
Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D.; Rome -- History -- Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D. -- Sources
II, 16. Before ἐμῶν W. inserts τῶν.
III, 14. Last word Apoll., τοῦ, Auc. τῶν.
VIII, 17. οὗτος, W. σύνπας; ἀριθμὸς, S. ἀριθμῷ or ἀριθμὸν.
X, 22. S. inserts τοῦ before Κρόνου.
X, 23. S. inserts μου after πατρὸς.
X, 24. καυθεῖσαν ἐπὶ, S. καταφλεχθεῖσαν ἐν.
XII, 1. ἐψηφίσαντο, S. καὶ ἐψήφιστο.
XIII, 22. οἳ ἢ πρότερον ἢ, S. ὑπατικοὶ καὶ οἳ.
Below is a copy of the deeds of the divine Augustus, by which he
subjected the whole world to the dominion of the Roman people, and
of the amounts which he expended upon the commonwealth and the Roman
people, as engraved upon two brazen columns which are set up at Rome.[1]
c. 1.
In my twentieth year,[2] acting upon my own judgment[3] and at my
own expense,[4] I raised an army[5] by means of which I restored to
liberty the commonwealth which had been oppressed by the tyranny of
a faction.[6] On account of this the senate by laudatory decrees
admitted me to its order,[7] in the consulship of Gaius Pansa and Aulus
Hirtius, and at the same time gave me consular rank in the expression
of opinion,[8] and gave me the _imperium_.[9] It also voted that
I as propraetor,[10] together with the consuls, should see to it that
the commonwealth suffered no harm.[11] In the same year, moreover, when
both consuls had perished in war, the people made me consul,[12] and
triumvir for organizing the commonwealth.[13]
c. 2.
Those who killed my father[14] I drove into exile by lawful
judgments,[15] avenging their crime, and afterwards, when they waged
war against the commonwealth, I twice defeated them in battle.[16]
c. 3.
I undertook civil and foreign wars by land and sea throughout the whole
world, and as victor I showed mercy to all surviving citizens.[17]
Foreign peoples, who could be pardoned with safety, I preferred to
preserve rather than to destroy. About five hundred thousand Roman
citizens took the military oath of allegiance to me.[18] Of these I
have settled in colonies or sent back to their _municipia_,[19]
upon the expiration of their terms of service,[20] somewhat over three
hundred thousand, and to all these I have given lands purchased by
me, or money for farms,[21] out of my own means. I have captured six
hundred ships, besides those which were smaller than triremes.[22]
c. 4.
Twice I have triumphed in the ovation,[23] and three times in the
curule triumph,[24] and I have been twenty-one times saluted as
imperator.[25]
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