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
III. Before 717. Cohen, _Vipsan._ 3, gives a coin with the words
_imp. divi Juli f. ter. III Vir v. p. c. M. Agrippa cos. desig._
Agrippa entered his consulship Jan. 1, 717.
IV. Probably connected with the Sicilian victory and ovation of 718.
V. 720 or 721. Probably connected with Dalmatian victories of one of
those years. Cf. C. I. L. V, 526.
VI. From Sept. 2, 723, to 725. On account of Actium. Cf. Oros. VI, 19,
14. C. I. L. X, 3826. _Imp. Cæsari divi f. imp. vi, cos. iii_
(723). C. I. L. X, 4830, _imp. Cæsari divi f. cos. v_ (725)
_imp. vi_.
VII. From 725 to 729. C. I. L. VI, 873: _senatus populusque Romanus
imp. Cæsari divi Juli f. cos. quinct._ (725) _cos. desig. sex.
imp. sept. republica conservata_. On account of Thracian and Dacian
victory of M. Licinius Crassus. Dio LI, 25, says: “Sacrifices and
festivals were decreed to Cæsar and to Crassus. He did not, however, as
some say, take the name imperator. Cæsar alone assumed that.”
VIII. From 729 to 734. Two inscriptions at Nismes (Donat. 96, 6) read:
_imp. Cæsari divi f. Augusto cos. nonum_ (729) _designato
decimum, imp. octavum_. Dio LIII, 26, says it was for a Celtic
victory of Marcus Vinicius.
IX. From 734 to 739 (?) Coins have the inscription _Augustus Cæsar
div. f. Armen. capt. imp. viii_. These commemorate the Armenian
expedition of Tiberius in 734. Possibly Augustus took the title on
account of the return of the captured standards from Parthia, which he
accounted a greater triumph than many a victory in open warfare.
X. 739 (?) to 742. C. I. L. V, 8088 and others: _Augustus imp. x,
tribunicia potestate xi_. The latter falls in the years 742, 743.
Probably referable to successes in Rhætian war of 739.
XI. 742. Coins (Cohen, n. 147-150) give: _imp. xi_. The causes
were the successes of Tiberius in Pannonia in 742. Dio LIV, 31.
XII. 743 to 744. C. I. L., III, 3117: _imp. xii tr. pot. xiii_ and
VI, 701, 702: _pontifex maximus, imp. xii cos. xi trib. pot. xiv_.
Referable to Germanic victory of Drusus. Dio LIV, 33.
XIII. Tiberius Imp. 745. Suet., _Tib._ 9, says that Tiberius
received the oration for Pannonian and Dalmatian victories. Cf. Val. 5,
5, 3. Dio LV, 2.
XIV. Tiberius Imp. II. 746-755. Dio LV, 6, refers this acclamation
to the Germanic victories of 746. Many coins, milestones and other
inscriptions of the period indicated mention this fourteenth
acclamation. Cf. C. I. L., II, 3827; 4931; V, 7243; 7817; VI, 1244.
XV. 755. For the Armenian victory of C. Cæsar. Dio Cass. LV, 11. C. I.
L. X, 3827; _pont. max., cos. iii (xiii) imp. xv, tr. p. xxv, p. p._
XVI. Untraced.
XVII. Tiberius Imp. III. 759. Dio LV, 28, referring to the German
expedition of Tiberius in 759, says, “Nothing great was accomplished.
Yet both Augustus and Tiberius received the acclamation as imperators.”
Cf. C. I. L. V. 6416.
XVIII. Tiberius Imp. IV. Probably for successes in Illyricum.
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