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
He constructed new works as follows: the temples of Mars, of Jupiter
the Thunderer and the Vanquisher, of Apollo, of the divine Julius,
of Quirinus, of Minerva, of Juno Regina, of Jupiter Libertas, of the
Lares, of the divine Penates, of Youth, and of the Mother of the
gods, the Lupercal, the Pulvinar in the Circus, the Curia with the
Chalcidicum, the Augustan Forum, the Basilica Julia, the Theatre of
Marcellus, the Portico on the Palatine, the Portico in the Flaminian
Circus, the grove of the Cæsars beyond the Tiber.[159]
c. 3.
He restored the Capitol, and sacred structures to the number of
eighty-two, the Theatre of Pompey, the aqueducts, the Flaminian
Way.[160]
c. 4.
His expenses for theatrical representations, for gladiatorial and
athletic exhibitions, for chases and the naval combat,[161] also for
gifts in money to the colonies and cities of Italy,[162] to provincial
cities suffering from earthquake or conflagrations,[163] and to
individual friends and to senators, whose property he raised to the
standard,[164] were innumerable.
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE.
(_Roman numerals refer to chapters._)
A. U. C.
706. Made _pontifex_, VI.
710. Raises army at his own cost, I; gives to each citizen 300
sesterces, according to will of Julius Cæsar, XV.
711. Enters senate, receives consular rank, and the _imperium_,
becomes _propraetor_, _imperator_, consul, I; triumvir, I
and VII; exiles murderers of Julius Cæsar, II.
712. War of Philippi, II; builds the curia, XIX, app. II.
714. _Imperator_ second and third times; ovation, IV.
716. Recovers Sardinia, XXVII.
718. The Sicilian war, III and XIX; fourth time _imperator_, IV;
punishes revolted slaves, XXV; recovers Sicily, XXVII; ovation, IV;
receives tribunitial power, X, cf. VI; builds temple of Apollo on the
Palatine, XIX, app. II.
721. Fifth time _imperator_? IV; recovers standards from
Dalmatians, XXIX.
722. Becomes leader against Antony, XXV.
723. Victory of Actium; clemency as victor, III; sixth time
_imperator_, IV.
724. Fourth consulship; veterans colonized, XVI; provinces east of
the Adriatic, and Cyrenae recovered; Egypt annexed, XXVII; Artavasdes
the Mede and Tiridates the Parthian flee to Augustus, XXXII;
ornaments replaced in temples of Asia, XXIV.
725. Fifth consulship, VIII, XV, XXI; seventh time _imperator_;
triple triumph, IV; declines coronary gold, XXI; gives to 120,000
colonized soldiers 1,000 sesterces apiece; gives the people 400
sesterces each, XV; gives gladiatorial show, XXII; consecrates gifts
in various temples, XXI; closes temple of Janus, XIII; name placed in
Salian hymn, X; increases number of patricians, VIII.
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