Monumentum Ancyranum: The Deeds of Augustus — John Shaqi
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
726. Sixth consulship, VIII, XX, XXXIV. Takes census; revises list
of senators, VIII; made _princeps senatus_, VII; restores city
temples, XX, app. III; gives money to the treasury, XVII; gives
gladiatorial and athletic shows, XXII; games vowed and celebrated for
health of Augustus, IX; restores the commonwealth to the senate and
people, XXXIV.
727. Seventh consulship, XX, XXXIV. Continuation of transfer of
power to senate and people; is called Augustus; door-posts decked
with laurel; civic crown and golden shield accorded, XXXIV; repairs
Flaminian Way, XX, app. III; melts down silver statues for offerings,
XXIV.
729. Eighth time _imperator_; refuses triumph, IV; closes temple
of Janus the second time, XIII; Arabian expedition, XXVI.
730. Tenth consulship; gives the people 400 sesterces each.
731. Eleventh consulship; twelve times supplies food for citizens,
XV, cf. V; Ethiopian expedition, XXVI.
732. Consulship of Marcus Marcellus and Lucius Arruntius; refuses
annual and perpetual consulship; also the dictatorship; accepts
the administration of grain supply, V; dedicates temple of Jupiter
Tonans, XIX.
733. Refuses consulship? V.
734. Receives embassy from India, XXXI; ninth time _imperator_?
refuses a triumph, IV; recovers standards from Parthia, XXIX; gives
Armenia Major to Tigranes, XXVII.
735. Quintus Lucretius and Marcus Vinucius consuls; altar of Fortuna
Redux consecrated; Augustalia established, XI; deputation of leading
men meet Augustus in Campania, XII; declines the custody of laws and
morals, VI.
736. Cnaeus and Publius Lentulus consuls, VI, XVIII; remits tribute,
XVIII; again declines custody of laws and morals; associates Agrippa
in tribunitial power, VI.
737. Gaius Furnius and Gaius Silanus consuls; secular games, XXII.
738. Augustus supplies money to the treasury, XVII; gives
gladiatorial show, XXII; dedicates temple of Quirinus, XIX, app. II.
739. Tenth time _imperator_, IV.
740. Marcus Crassus and Cnaeus Lentulus consuls; pays provincials for
lands taken for veterans.
741. Tiberius Nero and Publius Quintilius consuls, XII; deposits
laurel in the Capitol, IV; altar of the Augustan Peace dedicated,
XII; again associates Agrippa in tribunitial power, VI.
742. Gaius Sulpicius and Gaius Valgius consuls, X; twelfth year of
tribunitial power, XV; eleventh time _imperator_, IV; made
_pontifex maximus_, X; gives gladiatorial show, XXII; gives the
people 400 sesterces each, XV.
743. Paullus Fabius Maximus and Quintus Tubero consuls, VI; twelfth
time _imperator_, IV; for the third time refuses the custody of
laws and morals, VI; dedicates theater of Marcellus, XXI, app. II.
745. Thirteenth time _imperator_; deposits the laurel in temple
of Jupiter Feretrius, IV; Tiberius Nero subdues the Pannonians, XXX.
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