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
His supplying grain as well as money rose from the fact that taxes
were imposed both in kind and in money. Cf. Tac. _Ann._ IV, 6;
_Agr._ XIX and XXXI; C. I. Gr. 4957, 47. These passages all speak
of taxes both in money and in produce. As to the method of levy,
Hyginus is interesting (_De Lim._ p. 205). “The tax on agriculture
is arranged in many ways. In some provinces the harvest is chargeable
with a certain proportion, here a fifth, there a seventh, elsewhere a
cash payment, and for this purpose certain values are determined for
the fields by an estimation of the soil; as in Pannonia there is arable
of the first class, of the second, meadows, mast-bearing woods, common
woods, pastures: upon all these the tax is laid by the single acre,
according to the fertility of the soil.” This was in the time of Trajan.
[84] The structures detailed here and in cc. 20 and 21, fall into three
classes. First, those of c. 19, being either new buildings in place of
ruined ones, or else entirely new ones, both classes on soil already
consecrated; second, those of c. 20, being repairs of public works;
third, public works upon soil given by himself, as noted in the first
part of c. 21.
Augustus does not mention structures which he erected in the name of
others, as the portico of Octavia, (different from the one below, Note
90), the portico of Livia, cf. Dio, XLIX, 43 and LIV, 23. He also omits
the temple of Concord dedicated by Tiberius in 763 (C. I. L. I. p.
384), though he paid for it.
The order of the works is chronological for the most part.
[85] This was the Curia Julia, begun in 712. Cf. Dio XLVII, 19; XLIV,
5; XLV, 17. It was dedicated in 725 after Actium. Cf. Dio LI, 22. Here
the senate met. Its location was near the forum.
[86] A shrine of Minerva Chalcidica.
[87] Begun after the Sicilian victories in 718. Cf. Dio XLIX, 15; Vell.
II, 81, dedicated Oct. 9, 726. Cf. Dio, LIII, 1; C. I. L. I, p. 403.
Suet. _Aug._ 29, says: “He reared a temple of Apollo in that part
of his estate on the Palatine which the haruspices declared was desired
by the god because it had been struck by lightning; he attached to it a
portico and a Greek and Latin library.”
[88] An altar was placed at once on the spot in the forum where the
body of Julius Cæsar was cremated. In 712 the senate decreed that a
temple should be built there.
[89] Dionysius (I, 32), observes that the ancient condition of this
place (originally a grotto near the Palatine, sacred to Pan) had
been so changed as to be hardly recognizable. This was by reason of
the changes made in his time, which nearly coincided with that of
Augustus. Cf. C. I. L. VI, 912, 6, 9, and 841. Its precise location is
undetermined.
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