By a decree of the senate at the same time a part of the prætors and tribunes of the people with the consul Quintus Lucretius and leading citizens were sent into Campania to meet me, an honor which up to this time has been decreed to no one but me.[60] When I returned from Spain and Gaul after successfully arranging the affairs of those provinces, in the consulship of Tiberius Nero and Publius Quintilius, the senate voted that in honor of my return an altar of the Augustan Peace should be consecrated in the Campus Martius, and upon this altar it ordered the magistrates and priests and vestal virgins to offer sacrifices on each anniversary.[61] c. 13. Janus Quirinus, which it was the purpose of our fathers to close when there was peace won by victory[62] throughout the whole empire of the Roman people on land and sea, and which, before I was born, from the foundation of the city, was reported to have been closed twice in all,[63] the senate three times ordered to be closed while I was _princeps_.[64] c. 14. My sons, the Cæsars Gaius and Lucius, whom fortune snatched from me in their youth,[65] the senate and Roman people, in order to do me honor, designated as consuls in the fifteenth year of each, with the intention that they should enter upon that magistracy after five years.[66] And the senate decreed that from the day in which they were introduced into the forum they should share in the public counsels.[67] Moreover the whole body of the Roman knights gave them the title, _principes_ of the youth, and gave to each a silver buckler and spear.[68] c. 15. To each man of the Roman _plebs_ I paid three hundred sesterces in accordance with the last will of my father;[69] and in my own name, when consul for the fifth time, I gave four hundred sesterces from the spoils of the wars;[70] again, moreover, in my tenth consulship I gave from my own estate four hundred sesterces to each man by way of _congiarium_;[71] and in my eleventh consulship I twelve times made distributions of food, buying grain at my own expense;[72] and in the twelfth year of my tribunitial power I three times gave four hundred sesterces to each man.[73] These my donations have never been made to less than two hundred and fifty thousand men.[74] In my twelfth consulship and the eighteenth year of my tribunitial power I gave to three hundred and twenty thousand of the city _plebs_ sixty _denarii_ apiece.[75] In the colonies of my soldiers, when consul for the fifth time, I gave to each man a thousand sesterces from the spoils; about a hundred and twenty thousand men in the colonies received that triumphal donation.[76] When consul for the thirteenth time I gave sixty _denarii_ to the _plebs_ who were at that time receiving public grain; these men were a little more than two hundred thousand in number.[77][78] c. 16.