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
[131] For Sicily and Sardinia, cf. c. 25 and notes.
By the treaty of Brundisium, Antony had received Macedonia, Achaia,
Asia, Pontus, Bithynia, Cilicia, Cyprus, Syria, Crete, Cyrenaica. The
five last named he had given over to foreign kings. As to Asia and
Bithynia, Dio, XLIX, 41 and Plut. _Ant._ 54, are in conflict.
But the _Res Gestæ_ tends to confirm the latter. Lycaonia and
Pamphylia were taken from the province of Cilicia and given to
Amyntas, King of Galatia. Cf. Dio, XLIX, 32. He extended Egypt again
by restoring to it Cyprus. Cf. Dio, XLIX, 32, 41; Plut. l. c.; Strabo,
XIV, 6, 6: he granted to Cleopatra and Cæsarion, her son by Julius
Cæsar, the coast land of Syria, Tyre and Sidon excepted, cf. Jos.
_Ant._ XV, 4, 1; _Wars_, I, 18, 5; also Coele-Syria, cf. Jos.
_Ant._ XV, 3, 8; Plut. l. c.; Ituraea, Judaea and Arabia Nabataea,
cf. Dio, XLIX, 32; Jos. _Ant._ XV, 4, 1; 5, 3; _Wars_, I, 18,
5; 20, 3; parts of Cilicia, cf. Strabo, XIV, 5, 3; 5, 6: and perhaps
Crete also, cf. Dio, XLIX, 32: and Cyrenaica, cf. Plut. l. c. To his
younger son Ptolemy Philadelphus he gave Syria, and part of Cilicia,
cf. Dio, XLIX, 41; Plut. l. c.: for the elder, Alexander he planned a
kingdom made up of Armenia, Media and Parthia, cf. Livy, _Epit._
CXXXI; Plutarch, l. c. These alienations of Roman territory were made
the occasion of Octavian’s attack upon Antony. Cf. Dio, L, 1; Plut. l.
c.
[132] Mommsen believes that Augustus founded only military colonies.
Zumpt thinks otherwise. Cf. _Comment Epig._, I, 362.
[133] Known colonies of Augustus are: In Africa, Carthage, cf. C. I. L.
VIII, p. 133; Dio, LII, 43; App. _Pun._ CXXXVI. In Sicily, Panhormus,
Thermes, Tyndaris, cf. Dio, LIV, 7; Pliny, _Hist. Nat._, III, 8, 88;
89; 90. Marquardt, _Röm. Staatsverwaltung_ I, 246, names seven colonies
of Augustus in Sicily. In Macedonia, Dyrrachium, Philippi, cf. Dio,
LI, 4. Cassandrea, cf. Pliny, _Hist. Nat._, IV, 10. In Hither Spain,
Cæsaraugusta, cf. coin in Eckhel I, 37, which also gives the numbers
of the legions whose veterans were colonized here: _leg. IV_, _leg.
VI_, _leg. X_. Marquardt _op. cit._, I, 256, names six colonies of
Augustus here. In Farther Spain, Emerita, cf. Eckhel I, 12, and 19,
_leg. V_, _X_; Marquardt, _op. cit._, I, 257. In Achaia, Patrae, cf.
C. I. L. III, p. 95, _leg. X_, _XII_. In Asia, Alexandrea of the
Troad, cf. Pliny, _Hist. Nat._, V, 30. In Syria, Berytus, cf. Eckhel
III, 356, _leg. V_, _VIII_; Heliopolis, cf. Eckhel, III, 334. In
Gallia Narbonensis, Reii and Aquae Sextiae, cf. Herzog, _Gall. Narb.
inscr._ n. 113, 356. In Pisidia, Antioch, cf. Eckhel III, 18; Cremna,
cf. Eckhel III, 20; Olbasa, cf. Eckhel, III, 20; Parlais, cf. Ramsay,
_Bull. de Corr. Hell._, VII, p. 318.
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