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
A number of apparent errors in the text are to be attributed in all
probability to the stone-cutters at Ancyra. Such are the superfluous
_et_ of Latin ii, 2; _aede_ for _aedem_, iv, 22;
_quinquens_ for _quinquiens_, iv, 31; _ducenti_ for
_ducentos_, iv, 45; _provicias_ for _provincias_, v, 11;
_Tigrane_ for _Tigranem_, v, 31. εὔξησα for ἠύξησα, Gr. iv,
8; Ῥωμάοις for Ῥωμαίοις, vii, 6; ὑπατον for ὑπάτων, vii, 15; ἄνδρας
μυριάδων for ἀνδρῶν μυριάδας, viii, 8; omission of τρὶς before χειλίας,
ix, 13; ἐπεσκευσα for ἐπεσκευάσα, x, 18; omission of ναὸν before
ἀγοράν, xi, 10; επεύξησα for ἐπηύξησα, xiv, 4; omission of Ἀρτάξου, xv,
3; μείσζονος for μείζονος, xv, 15; προκατηλειμένας for κατειλημένας,
xv, 17; ἐπειταδε for ἐπίταδε, xvi, 11; βασιλεες for βασιλεῖς, xvi, 22;
βασιλεις for βασιλεὺς, xvii, 4; ἐπείκειαν for ἐπιείκειαν, xviii, 5;
ἀγορᾷ Σεβαστῇ for ἀγορὰ Σεβαστή, xix, 1.
VIII. SIGNS AND ABBREVIATIONS.
The Latin and Greek texts are printed in such a way as to give the
best idea practicable of their actual condition. Roman numerals denote
the pages of the inscription, and the Arabic figures the lines. These
numerals and the chapter headings are no part of the inscription. The
projection of the first line of each chapter in the Latin is the only
method of marking the divisions in the original.
Parts of the Greek and Latin text included within brackets, [], are
conjectural restorations of the portions of the inscription which have
perished. The Greek generally is a guide to the Latin and _vice
versa_, for the instances are rare where both versions have been
lost. The textual notes show that not all scholars have reckoned the
same number of missing letters. These variations are quite allowable,
for it is impossible to say that just so many letters are missing in
any given case, owing to the various sizes of different letters, and
varying degrees of closeness of writing.
Where dots (...) occur, it signifies that Mommsen reckons as many
letters unrestored as there are dots.
The sign § indicates a mark in the original resembling a figure 7, or a
very open 3.
The same sign in brackets [§] indicates an unfilled interval in the
stone.
The apices over vowels in the Latin indicate similar marks in the
original in the case of a, e, o and u, and in the case of i a
prolongation of that letter above the line.
Where certain letters of the Latin text are italicized it indicates
that while they do not appear in the plaster casts, yet they were
traced by Alfred Domaszewski (a fellow-worker with Humann) on the stone
itself, by means of certain discolorations from paint, or gilding, or
weather, which marked the bottom of the incisions of the letters in
several cases where the surface of the stone had been worn away.
In the textual notes, B. stands for Bormann, G. for Geppert, S. for J.
Schmidt, Sk. for Seeck, W. for Wölfflin, Apoll. for the inscription at
Apollonia, and Anc. for that at Ancyra.
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