Upon my return from Spain and Gaul, in the consulship of Tiberius Nero and Publius Quintilius, after having successfully settled the affairs in those provinces, the Senate decreed that an altar of Augustan Peace should be consecrated in the Campus Martius.
— Augustus Caesar Ancient

First Roman Emperor

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Res Gestae Divi Augusti, Chapter 12

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c. 14 AD (written by Augustus)

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Controversial

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https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Augustus/Res_Gestae/12*.html

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