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The method employed in this edition of the _Monumentum Ancyranum_ is suggested by the purpose for which it is intended. That purpose is primarily to adapt it as one of the series of _Translations and Reprints from the Original Sources of European History_, published by the Dep...
The method employed in this edition of the _Monumentum Ancyranum_ is suggested by the purpose for which it is intended. That purpose is primarily to adapt it as one of the serie...
2. Part 23. Part 3Below is a copy of the deeds of the divine Augustus, by which he subjected the whole world to the dominion of the Roman people, and of the amounts which he expended upon the com...
4. Part 4In my fifth consulship, by order of the people and the senate, I increased the number of the patricians.[48] Three times I have revised the list of the senate.[49] In my sixth c...
5. Part 5742. Gaius Sulpicius and Gaius Valgius consuls, X; twelfth year of tribunitial power, XV; eleventh time _imperator_, IV; made _pontifex maximus_, X; gives gladiatorial show, XXI...
6. Part 6[32] Dio, LIV, 1, writes: “In the following year (732) the Tiber again overflowed; statues in the Pantheon were struck by lightning, so that the spear was knocked out of the han...
7. Part 7The title of _princeps juventutis_ is somewhat difficult to explain. The fact is attested by Zonaras, X, 35, and by an inscription found near Viterbo (cf. Mommsen _R. G._, p. 53...
8. Part 8Claudius gave a similar exhibition on the Fucine Lake, but with a hundred triremes and quadriremes, and a force of nineteen thousand men, “as once Augustus did in a pond by the...
9. Part 9[140] Cf. Suet. _Aug._, 21; Flor. IV, 12, 62; _Oros._, VI, 21, 19, says that deputies of Indians and Scythians came to Augustus at Tarracona in 728 or 729; Dio, LIV, 9, that dep...