For the lands which in my fourth consulship, and afterwards in the consulship of Marcus Crassus and Cnæus Lentulus, the augur, I assigned to soldiers, I paid money to the _municipia_. The sum which I paid for Italian farms was about six hundred million sesterces, and that for lands in the provinces was about two hundred and sixty millions.[79] Of all those who have established colonies of soldiers in Italy or in the provinces I am the first and only one within the memory of my age, to do this. And afterward in the consulship of Tiberius Nero and Cnæus Piso, and also in that of Gaius Antistius and Decimus Lælius, and in that of Gaius Calvisius and Lucius Pasienus, and in that of Lucius Lentulus and Marcus Messala, and in that of Lucius Caninius and Quintus Fabricius, I gave gratuities in money to the soldiers whom I sent back to their _municipia_ at the expiration of their terms of service, and for this purpose I freely spent four hundred million sesterces.[80] c. 17. Four times I have aided the public treasury from my own means, to such extent that I have furnished to those in charge of the treasury one hundred and fifty million sesterces.[81] And in the consulship of Marcus Lepidus and Lucius Arruntius I paid into the military treasury which was established by my advice that from it gratuities might be given to soldiers who had served a term of twenty or more years, one hundred and seventy million sesterces from my own estate.[82] c. 18. Beginning with that year in which Cnæus and Publius Lentulus were consuls, when the imposts failed, I furnished aid sometimes to a hundred thousand men, and sometimes to more, by supplying grain or money for the tribute from my own land and property.[83] c. 19. I constructed[84] the Curia,[85] and the Chalcidicum adjacent thereto,[86] the temple of Apollo on the Palatine, with its porticoes,[87] the temple of the divine Julius,[88] the Lupercal,[89] the portico to the Circus of Flaminius, which I allowed to bear the name, Portico Octavia, from his name who constructed the earlier one in the same place;[90] the Pulvinar at the Circus Maximus,[91] the temples of Jupiter the Vanquisher[92] and Jupiter the Thunderer, on the Capitol,[93] the temple of Quirinus,[94] the temples of Minerva and Juno Regina and of Jupiter Libertas, on the Aventine,[95] the temple of the Lares on the highest point of the Via Sacra,[96] the temple of the divine Penates on the Velian hill,[97] the temple of Youth,[98] and the temple of the Great Mother on the Palatine.[99] c. 20.