What the senate then wanted to accomplish through me, I did through tribunician power, and five times on my own accord I both requested and received from the senate a colleague in such power.ħ.
When Marcus Vinicius and Quintus Lucretius were consuls (19 B.C.E.), then again when Publius Lentulus and Gnaeus Lentulus were (18 B.C.E.), and third when Paullus Fabius Maximus and Quintus Tubero were (11 B.C.E.), although the senateand Roman people consented that I alone be made curator of the laws and customs with the highest power, I received no magistracy offered contrary to the customs of the ancestors. When the annual and perpetual consulate was then again offered to me, I did not accept it.Ħ. I did not evade the curatorship of grain in the height of the food shortage, which I so arranged that within a few days I freed the entire city from the present fear and danger by my own expense and administration. When the dictatorship was offered to me, both in my presence and my absence, by the people and senate, when Marcus Marcellus and Lucius Arruntius were consuls (22 B.C.E.), I did not accept it. I had been consul thirteen times, when I wrote this, and I was in the thirty-seventh year of tribunician power (14 A.C.E.).ĥ. In my triumphs kings and nine children of kings were led before my chariot. Moreover there were 890 days on which the senate decreed there would be sacrifices.
On account of the things successfully done by me and through my officers, under my auspices, on earth and sea, the senate decreed fifty-five times that there be sacrifices to the immortal gods. I placed the laurel from the fasces in the Capitol, when the vows which I pronounced in each war had been fulfilled. When the senate decreed more triumphs for me, I sat out from all of them. Twice I triumphed with an ovation, and three times I enjoyeda curule triumph and twenty one times I was named emperor. I captured six hundred ships in addition to those smaller than triremes.Ĥ. I led something more than three hundred thousand of them into colonies and I returned them to their cities, after their stipend had been earned, and I assigned all of them fields or gave them money for their military service. About five hundred thousand Roman citizens were sworn to me. As for foreign nations, those which I was able to safely forgive, I preferred to preserve than to destroy. I often waged war, civil and foreign, on the earth and sea, in the whole wide world, and as victor I spared all the citizens who sought pardon.
I drove the men who slaughtered my father into exile with a legal order, punishing their crime, and afterwards, when they waged war on the state, I conquered them in two battles.ģ. But the people made me consul in the same year, when the consuls each perished in battle, and they made me a triumvir for the settling of the state.Ģ. With me as propraetor, it ordered me, together with the consuls, to take care lest any detriment befall the state. For that reason, the senate enrolled me in its order by laudatory resolutions, when Gaius Pansa and Aulus Hirtius were consuls (43 B.C.E.), assigning me the place of a consul in the giving of opinions, and gave me the imperium.
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In my nineteenth year, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army with which I set free the state, which was oppressed by the domination of a faction. A copy below of the deeds of the divine Augustus, by which he subjected the whole wide earth to the rule of the Roman people, and of the money which he spent for the state and Roman people, inscribed on two bronze pillars, which are set up in Rome.ġ.
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