To me have betaken themselves as suppliants the kings of the Parthians, Tiridates, and later, Phraates, the son of king Phraates;[142] of the Medes, Artavasdes;[143] of the Adiabeni, Artaxares;[144] of the Britons, Dumnobellaunus and Tim_____;[145] of the Sicambri, Maelo;[146] and of the Marcomanian Suevi, __________rus.[147] Phraates, king of the Parthians, son of Orodes, sent all his children and grandchildren into Italy to me, not because he had been conquered in war, but rather seeking our friendship by means of his children as pledges.[148] Since I have been _princeps_ very many other races have made proof of the good faith of the Roman people, who never before had had any interchange of embassies and friendship with the Roman people. c. 33. From me the peoples of the Parthians and of the Medes have received the kings they asked for through ambassadors, the chief men of those peoples: the Parthians, Vonones, the son of king Phraates, and grandson of king Orodes;[149] the Medes, Ariobarzanes, the son of king Artavasdes, and grandson of king Ariobarzanes.[150] c. 34. In my sixth and seventh consulships, when I had put an end to the civil wars, after having obtained complete control of affairs by universal consent, I transferred the commonwealth from my own dominion to the authority of the senate and Roman people.[151] In return for this favor on my part I received by decree of the senate the title Augustus,[152] the door-posts of my house were publicly decked with laurels, a civic crown was fixed above my door,[153] and in the Julian Curia was placed a golden shield, which, by its inscription, bore witness that it was given to me by the senate and Roman people on account of my valor, clemency, justice and piety.[154] After that time I excelled all others in dignity, but of power I held no more than those also held who were my colleagues in any magistracy.[155] c. 35. While I was consul for the thirteenth time the senate and the equestrian order and the entire Roman people gave me the title of father of the fatherland, and decreed that it should be inscribed upon the vestibule of my house and in the Curia, and in the Augustan Forum beneath the quadriga which had been, by decree of the senate, set up in my honor.[156] When I wrote these words I was in my seventy-sixth year.[157] SUPPLEMENT. c. 1. The sum of the money which he gave in to the treasury or to the Roman people, or to discharged soldiers, was six hundred million denarii.[158] c. 2.