Augustus Caesar

I restored to the Capitol and to the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus 3,500 pounds of gold, and 50,000,000 sesterces.

I paid the soldiers their bounties from my own patrimony.

I was in my nineteenth year when I raised an army on my own initiative and at my own expense, by means of which I restored liberty to the Republic, oppressed by the domination of a faction.

I put an end to the civil wars, which lasted for twenty years.

I received the power of a tribune of the people for life.

I provided games in my own name four times.

I restored the images of the gods which had been carried off by the sacrilegious hands of the civil wars.

I presented myself for the consulship in my twenty-eighth year.

I compelled the Parthians to restore to me the spoils and standards of three Roman armies.

I accepted the position of Pontifex Maximus.

I provided gladiatorial games and wild beast hunts for the people.

I built new temples to Minerva, Queen Juno, and Jupiter Libertas.

I gave money to the plebs of Rome.

I restored the standard of the legions which had been lost in the wars with the Germans.

I have been consul thirteen times.

I was the first to bring a fleet from the Ocean into the Tiber.

I added to the Roman People the provinces of Noricum and Raetia.

I established colonies of soldiers in Africa, Sicily, and Italy.

I accepted no dictatorship.

I was saluted as Imperator twenty-one times.