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
=Juvenal, Decimus Junius (Juv.)=: _Satiræ (Sat.)_.
=Livius, Titus (Livy)=: _Annales_; _Epitomæ (Ep.)_.
=Macrobius, Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius (Mac.)=:
_Saturnaliorum Conviviorum Libri VII (Sat.)_.
=Nepos, Cornelius (Nep.)=: _De Viris Illustribus_.
=Orosius, Paulus (Oros.)=: _Historiarum adversus Paganos (adv.
Pag.)_.
=Ovidius Naso, Publius (Ovid)=: _Metamorphoses (Met.)_;
_Fasti_; _Tristia (Tr.)_; _Ars Amatoria (Ars Am.)_.
=Plinius Secundus, Gaius (Pliny)=: _Historia Naturalis (Hist.
Nat.)_
=Plutarchus (Plut.)=: _Vita Antonii (Ant.)_; _Vita Bruti
(Brut.)_; _Moralia. De Fortuna Romanorum (De Fort. Rom.)_.
=Propertius, Sextus Aurelius (Prop.)=: _Elegiæ_.
=Ptolemæus, Claudius (Ptol.)=: _Geographia_.
=Seneca, Lucius Annæus (Sen.)=: _De Clementia ad Neronem
Cæsarem Libri II (De Clem.)_.
=Strabo=: _Geographia_.
=Suetonius, Tranquillus Gaius (Suet.)=: _Vita Duodecim
Cæsarum_; _Julii (Jul.)_; _Augusti (Aug.)_; _Tiberii
(Tib.)_; _Claudii (Claud.)_.
=Tacitus, Gaius Cornelius (Tac.)=: _Historiæ (Hist.)_;
_Annales (Ann.)_; _Germania (Ger.)_; _Agricola (Agr.)_.
=Valerius Maximus (Val.)=: _De Factis Dictisque Memorabilibus
Libri IX_.
=Varro, Marcus Terentius=: _De Lingua Latina_.
=Velleius Paterculus, Gaius (Vell.)=: _Historiæ Romanæ Libri
II_.
=Vergilius Maro, Publius (Ver.)=: _Æneid (Æn.)_;
_Georgica, (Georg.)_.
=Victor, Sextus Aurelius (Vict.)=: _Historia Romana_.
=Zonaras, Joannes=: _Annales_.
NOTES:
[1] This title at Ancyra extends over the first three pages of the
Latin, that is over so much of the inscription as is on the left wall
of the pronaos; the Greek title extends over seventeen of the nineteen
pages of the Greek version.
In its present form, the title cannot be the same as that over the
original at Rome. All from “as engraved” is certainly an addition,
probably made by the Galatian legate who ordered the magistrates of
Ancyra to have the inscription placed on the temple of Augustus.
The last two words in the Latin (placed first in the English), were
probably inserted only by a blunder at Ancyra. “A copy subjoined,”
doubtless stood in the legate’s letter, just as we might write “see
enclosure.” But what of the remainder of the inscription, “Of the deeds
... Roman people”? It is hardly conceivable that this was the title
of the inscription at Rome, because it embraces only two of the three
parts into which the subject-matter falls. It covers the achievements
and the expenditures of Augustus; in reverse order, however, from that
of the document itself; and it omits any allusion to the subject-matter
of the first fourteen chapters, which have to do with the offices and
honors conferred upon Augustus.
It is impossible to say what was the superscription at Rome. Possibly
there was none. The name of Augustus, most likely, was conspicuous
somewhere in connection with the front of the mausoleum, and this
inscription may very well have been devoid of title.
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