(890 days of thanksgiving were given). temples to Apollo, divine Julius, Jupiter Feretrius, Jupiter the Thunderer, Quirinius, Historically speaking, it seems there was a Dumnobellanus who inherited the territory of the Trinovantes (roughly modern Suffolk) and was later supplanted, and Tincomarus was a pro-Roman leader of the Atrebates, ousted by his brother Eppillus. Augustus extended the Roman empire (cf. by which he brought the world under the empire of the Roman people and the expenses 15. It is best summarized in the full title: "the achievements of the deified Augustus by which he placed the whole world under the sovereignty of the Roman people, and of the amounts which he expended upon the state and the Roman people". [8] As consul for the fifth time,note[29 BCE.] and of Gaius Calvisius and Lucius Pasienus,note[4 BCE.] [21] On my own ground I built the temple of Mars Ultor and the Augustan Forum from the spoils of war.note[Against the murderers of Caesar.] he put golden offerings in the temple of Apollo. The Senate roll was revised republic". He was offered the consulship for Senate ordered thanksgiving to the gods should be offered for Augustus' successes While the Res Gestae was assuredly a propaganda piece devoted to Augustus himself, it is still one of a very small number of ancient texts that make a mention of Britain. 25. wants to stress the uniqueness of his achievements). [35] While I was administering my thirteenth consulship the Senate and the equestrian order and the entire Roman people gave me the title of Father of my Country, and decreed that this title should be inscribed upon the vestibule of my house and in the senate-house and in the Forum Augustum beneath the quadriga erected in my honour by decree of the Senate. As there are no documented invasions in the following 39 years and he left instructions to his successor Tiberius not to extend the empire any further, we can assume that Britain was either compliant with Roman interests after 25 BCE, or that it had so little contact or influence in Gaul that it was considered an irrelevance. He gave lots of gifts to the temples. I recovered all the provinces extending eastward beyond the Adriatic Sea, and Cyrene, which were then for the most part in possession of kings, and, at an earlier time, Sicily and Sardinia, which had been seized in the servile war. To the day of writing this I have been princeps senatus for forty years. The Alps, from the region which lies nearest to the Adriatic as far as the Tuscan Sea, I brought to a state of peace without waging on any tribe an unjust war. (This 9. [22] Three times in my own name I gave a show of gladiators, and five times in the name of my sons or grandsons; in these shows there fought about ten thousand men. The days on which such thanks were rendered by decree of the Senate numbered 890. won the second), 3. 30. 19th c. drawing of Armenian King Tiridates III, based on his coins. 20. Several years later I accepted that sacred office when he at last was dead who, taking advantage of a time of civil disturbance, had seized it for himself,note[I.e., Lepidus.] 8. [28] I settled colonies of soldiers in Africa, Sicily, Macedonia, both Spains, Achaea, Asia, Syria, Gallia Narbonensis, Pisidia. 28. He goes on (ibid 34 ,2) to describe the gifts bestowed upon him by the senate; using them to highlight the high regard he retained at the successful conclusion of his triumvirate and also portraying them as rewards for moral character in withdrawing, when some would have sought to extend. ]I constructed the Via Flaminia from the city to Ariminum, and all the bridges except the Mulvian and the Minucian. In the colonies of my soldiers, as consul for the fifth time, I gave one thousand sesterces to each man from the spoils of war; about one hundred and twenty thousand men in the colonies received this triumphal largesse. It is interesting that they are listed in the same breath as a number of kings in the turbulent east, as Kings such as Tiridates II were being raised and overthrown at a rather alarming rate, and from his writings it’s rather clear that Augustus wanted no responsibility whatsoever in running the region (ibid 27 for examples of this). He removed silver statues of himself in Rome: with the money they realised, a moral decline in the last years of the republic due to greed, luxury and immorality. This page was created in 2007; last modified on 15 September 2020. Augustus was offered dictatorship by both Senate and the people but refused. All content copyright © 1995–2020 Livius.org. (Res Gestae 5.2 for example). It is notable that the first reference made to his triumviral power (Res Gestae 34,1 – the triumvirate was a council of three given special powers during years of crisis) is dated by his acknowledgement of his sixth and seventh consulships, a remarkable achievement previously matched only by the popular general Marius. (his son-in-law). such a multitude from all Italy assembling for my election, in the consulship of Publius Sulpicius and Gaius Valgius,note[12 BCE.] I had been thirteen times consul, and was in the thirty-seventh year of my tribunician power. I replaced in the temples in all the cities of the province of Asia the ornaments which my antagonist in the war, when he despoiled the temples, had appropriated to his private use.

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