AD 14

Aug. Anc.

The Deeds of the Divine Augustus

Below is a copy of the acts 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, as engraved upon two bronze columns which have been set up in Rome. At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored liberty to…Read now

Author: Augustus
Sections: 0-39
Translator: Frederick W. Shipley

The Deeds of the Divine Augustus

Augustus

translated by Frederick W. Shipley

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Frederick W. ShipleyDefaultShipley translationFrom the Loeb Classical Library's Velleius Paterculus [Compendium of Roman History] and Res Gestae Divi Augusti (1924).Below is a copy of the acts 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, as engraved upon two bronze columns which have been set…