Transcriber’s Notes:—
Italic text has been marked _thus_.
Bold text has been marked =thus=.
The original accentuation, spelling, punctuation and hyphenation has
been retained, except for apparent printer’s errors.
A list of contents has been added.
Further notes are given at the end of the book.
CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction
Latin Inscriptions
Greek Inscriptions
English Descriptions
Supplement
Chronological Table
Bibliography
Notes
Vol. V. No. 1.
Translations and Reprints
FROM THE
=Original Sources of European History=
MONUMENTUM ANCYRANUM
THE DEEDS OF AUGUSTUS
EDITED BY WILLIAM FAIRLEY, PH.D.
PUBLISHED BY
The Department of History of the University of Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia, Pa., 1898.
ENGLISH AGENCY: P. S. KING & SON, 12-14 King Street, London, S. W.
Copyright, 1898,
WILLIAM FAIRLEY.
PHILADELPHIA
ANVIL PRINTING COMPANY
1898
PREFACE
The method employed in this edition of the _Monumentum Ancyranum_
is suggested by the purpose for which it is intended. That purpose
is primarily to adapt it as one of the series of _Translations and
Reprints from the Original Sources of European History_, published
by the Department of History of the University of Pennsylvania.
The English version is the core of the work. At the same time the
opportunity has been seized to present the original texts in such form
as to be of real philological service. That there is room for such
an edition of the _Monumentum Ancyranum_ there can be no doubt.
The critical edition published by Mommsen in 1883, _Res Gestæ Divi
Augusti_, must long remain for scholars the sufficient hand-book for
the study of the greatest of inscriptions. But that edition, with its
Latin notes, is not adapted for ordinary school or college use, or for
historical study by those who do not readily use Latin. And although
Roman histories constantly refer to this great source for the life and
times of Augustus, there has been no accessible English translation. It
is true that the English translation of Duruy’s _History of Rome_
contains a version of the _Monumentum_, but it is not in full
accord with the latest text as set forth by Mommsen, and is hidden away
in the ponderous volumes of that expensive work.
Aside from Mommsen’s edition of 1883, the only recent edition is a
French one of 1886 by C. Peltier. But this is simply a condensation of
Mommsen. While the present edition depends very largely on Mommsen’s
work, it is more than a condensation. Not only is the English version
given, but all the known studies of the text published since 1883,
and in criticism of Mommsen, have been collated. The emendations thus
suggested have been placed as footnotes to the Latin and Greek texts.
Moreover, the notes have been carefully revised. For the most part they
are much reduced in compass, but in many cases they are added to; and
a large number of typographical errors in Mommsen’s edition have been
corrected. Most of these errors were reproduced in the French edition
above mentioned. In a work with such a multitude of references it is
too much to hope that all errors have been avoided, and the editor will
be greatly indebted if users of the book will report them to him.
W. FAIRLEY.
_University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa._
INTRODUCTION
I. HISTORY OF THE INSCRIPTION.
Suetonius in his _Life of Augustus_ tells us that that Emperor had
placed in charge of the Vestal virgins his will and three other sealed
documents; and the four papers were produced and read in the senate
immediately after his death. One of these additional documents gave
directions as to his funeral; another gave a concise account of the
state of the empire; the third contained a list of “his achievements
which he desired should be inscribed on brazen tablets and placed
before his mausoleum.” These tablets perished in the decline of Rome.
Centuries passed; men had ceased to ask about them, and there was no
idea that they would ever be brought to light. Nor were the original
tablets ever found. But in 1555 Buysbecche, a Dutch scholar, was sent
on an embassy from the Emperor Ferdinand II. to the Sultan Soliman
at Amasia in Asia Minor; and a letter of his, published among others
at Frankfort in 1595, tells the story of the discovery of a copy of
this epitaph of Augustus. He writes: “On our nineteenth day from
Constantinople we reached Ancyra. Here we found a most beautiful
inscription, and a copy of those tablets on which Augustus had placed
the story of his achievements.” From this situation of the copy comes
the common title, _Monumentum Ancyranum_. Buysbecche made some
attempt to copy the Latin inscription, but his work was very hasty and
incomplete. What he had discovered was of extreme importance, and his
report stimulated such interest that European scholars never rested
till as complete a copy as possible was finally made in our own time.
The temple on whose walls the inscription was found was one dedicated
to Augustus and Rome, as was a common custom during the lifetime of
that Emperor. It was a hexastyle of white marble, with joints of such
exquisite workmanship that even in this century it was difficult to
trace some of them. This temple had served as a Christian church till
the fifteenth century, and from that time has been part of a Turkish
mosque, some sections of its enclosure being used as a cemetery. The
great inscription was cut on the two side walls of the pronaos, or
vestibule. It was in six pages, three on the left as one entered, and
three on the right. Each page contained from forty-two to fifty-four
lines, and each line an average of sixty letters. The pages cover six
courses of the masonry in height, about 2.70 metres, and the length of
the inscription on each wall is about 4 metres. On one of the outer
walls of the temple was a Greek translation of the Latin. This measures
1.38 metres in height by 21 metres in length. Several Turkish houses
had been built against the wall containing this Greek version, and
this made the reading of it, and still more the copying, an extremely
difficult task. The priceless value of the Greek version lies in the
fact that it supplements in many cases the breaks in the Latin. For
it is needless to say that an inscription so old and so exposed has
suffered much from time and violence. Various travelers have described
the temple and its treasure: Tournefort in his _Voyage du Levant_,
Lyons, 1717; Kinneir, _Journey Through Asia Minor_, 1818; Texier,
_Description de l’Asie mineure_, Paris, 1839; William Hamilton,
_Researches in Asia Minor_, London, 1842; and most completely,
Guillaume, Perrot and Delbet, in their _Exploration archéologique de
la Galatie, etc., in 1861_, Paris, 1872.
Numerous attempts were made at transcribing the inscription, and a
number of editions were published. Buysbecche’s fragments found several
editors in the century of their discovery. About a hundred years after
him Daniel Cosson, a merchant from Leyden, who had lived many years at
Smyrna, dying there in 1689, caused an attempt to be made to secure a
copy, and with somewhat better results. His copy was edited at Leyden
in 1695. In 1701 Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, under direction of
Louis XIV, visited Ancyra, and attempted to secure a facsimile of the
text. In 1705 Paul Lucas, also sent by Louis XIV, spent twenty days
in copying the Latin, and his work was the last of its kind till the
present century. While these early copies are far from being as perfect
as more recent ones, they have this value: that in a number of cases
they show parts of the inscription which progressive disintegration has
now rendered illegible.
The Greek text, owing to the buildings reared against it, was much
harder to transcribe. In 1745 Richard Pococke published a few
fragments, and in 1832 Hamilton copied pages 10, 11, 12 and 13 of the
nineteen into which the Greek is divided.
Within recent years all has been done that can possibly be done to
secure perfect copies of both Greek and Latin. In 1859 the Royal
Academy of Berlin commissioned a scholar named Mordtmann to secure a
_papier maché_ cast of the Latin, and to transcribe the Greek. He
failed in both attempts, and declared that the casts would ruin the
original.
Napoleon III. commissioned George Perrot and Edmund Guillaume to
explore Asia Minor. In their work above mentioned they give a facsimile
copy of the whole of the Latin, and of as much of the Greek as they
could get at. Their plates were the basis of an edition of the text by
Mommsen in 1865, and another by Bergk in 1873, and of the text given in
the _Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum_.
But Mommsen and the Berlin Academy were not satisfied. Carl Humann had
distinguished himself by his researches at Pergamos, and to him they
committed the task of securing casts of the whole of both texts. The
story of his achievement is extremely interesting. Difficulty after
difficulty was met and surmounted. And finally he succeeded in his
plan. With materials dug near-by he made plaster casts. The owners of
the Turkish houses he succeeded in inducing to allow their walls to be
so far torn away as to permit him to get at the entire Greek text. And
finally twenty great cases containing the whole series of casts were
sent away on pack mules to the coast and thence to Berlin. The Royal
Academy now counts these casts among its chief treasures. This was
in 1882. In 1883 Mommsen published his great critical edition of the
text, on which this edition is based. His work is almost final on the
subject, but especially in the matter of conjectural fillings of the
_lacunæ_ is subject to revision. But an inspection of the text
as given in this volume will show that we have the words of Augustus
almost in their entirety.
At Apollonia, on the borders of Phrygia and Pisidia, has been found
another ruined temple, with remnants of the Greek version of this
inscription. At Apollonia the inscription originally covered seven
pages. Of these there are still legible the upper portions of pages
two, three, four and five. The correspondence between the text at
Ancyra and that at Apollonia is almost exact, and where there is a
divergence, it has been indicated.
II. CHARACTER AND PURPOSE OF THE INSCRIPTION.
German scholars have waged a fierce warfare over the question of the
literary character of the _Res Gestæ_, as Mommsen commonly calls
it. He himself refrains from assigning it decidedly to any class of
composition. Is it epitaph, or a “statement of account,” or “political
statement”? Otto Hirschfeld contends strongly it is not an epitaph
because it contains no dates of birth or death, and is in the first
person. Wölfflin calls it a statement of account. Geppert sides with
Hirschfeld. Bormann, Schmidt and Nissen all hold it to be an epitaph.
And this appears to be the final agreement. The latest word is the
discussion by Bormann, in 1895, in which he still maintains the epitaph
view. For these discussions, cf. the bibliography at the end of this
volume.
Of course it is an epitaph of unique character. It has certain striking
peculiarities, and specially of omission. There is no mention of
domestic affairs. The wife of the Emperor is unnamed. Although in
enumerating his honors and offices it was necessary to date events by
the names of consuls, yet aside from this he mentions no person outside
the imperial household, not even such favorites as Mæcenas and Agrippa.
His foes, Brutus, Cassius and Antony, are several times alluded to,
but never named. The same is true of Lepidus and Sextus Pompeius.
Unfortunate events are not noticed. His omission of the disaster to
the Roman arms under Varus has been severely criticised as an attempt
to deceive; but if the inscription is really an epitaph one cannot
wonder at such silence. The omission of the dates of birth and death
has been variously explained. Some have thought that he meant his heirs
to fill in any such gaps after his death, and to recast the whole into
the third person. Or, it has been suggested that it was the desire of
Augustus to be counted a divinity, and that therefore he wished to pose
as one “without beginning of years, or end of days.” It certainly would
be incongruous to record the death of a god. With regard to his general
purpose Mommsen says: “No one would look for the arcana of empire in
such a document, but for such things as an _imperator_ of mind
shrewd rather than lofty, and who skillfully bore the character of a
great man while he himself was not great, wished the whole people, and
especially the rabble, to believe about him.” Two purposes are manifest
throughout the document. One is to pose as a saviour of the state from
its foes, and not at all as a seeker after personal aggrandizement;
another is to represent his whole authority as having been exercised
under constitutional forms. These two ideas appear again and again.
III. DIVISIONS OF THE TEXT.
The text may be roughly divided into three sections. Chapters one
to fourteen give the various offices held by Augustus, and the
honors bestowed upon him; chapters fifteen to twenty-four recount
his expenditures for the good of the state and the people; and the
remaining chapters, twenty-five to thirty-five, give the statement
of his various achievements in war, and his works of a more peaceful
character. This classification will not hold rigorously, but is true in
the main.
The division into chapters or paragraphs is marked in the Latin text
by making the first line of each chapter project a little to the left
of the remaining lines. Each such paragraph is relatively complete.
And the use of such a topical method marks a new manner of composition
quite different from the old annalistic style of Roman historiography.
IV. THE GREEK VERSION.
George Kaibel has made a special study of the Greek version, and is led
to the opinion that it was made by a Roman rather than by a Greek. It
is a grammar and dictionary rendering, rather than the idiomatic work
of one quite at home in the use of Greek. This conclusion is based
upon linguistic grounds. A further question remains as to where this
translation was made, whether at Rome or in the provinces. The fact of
the identity of the two copies at Apollonia and at Ancyra would seem to
indicate a common Roman source.
V. THE SUPPLEMENT.
This is poorly written both in the Latin and in the Greek; and it is
also a very imperfect summary of the document, summing up only what
was spent upon games, donations and buildings. The fact that it is in
the third person also proves that it is not the work of Augustus. The
reckoning by denarii rather than by sesterces points to a Greek origin,
and the mention of favors shown by Augustus to provincial towns (cf. c.
4 and notes) would indicate one outside of Rome.
VI. TRUSTWORTHINESS OF THE INSCRIPTION.
The corroborations of the inscription by other inscriptions, coins and
later historians, as well as by allusions in contemporary literature,
form an interesting study. And the trustworthiness of the record
becomes more manifest the more one compares its statements with those
of other writers. Only one point has been found where Augustus makes
what might be challenged as a perversion of fact. (Cf. c. 2, note 16.)
VII. MASONS’ BLUNDERS.
A number of apparent errors in the text are to be attributed in all
probability to the stone-cutters at Ancyra. Such are the superfluous
_et_ of Latin ii, 2; _aede_ for _aedem_, iv, 22;
_quinquens_ for _quinquiens_, iv, 31; _ducenti_ for
_ducentos_, iv, 45; _provicias_ for _provincias_, v, 11;
_Tigrane_ for _Tigranem_, v, 31. εὔξησα for ἠύξησα, Gr. iv,
8; Ῥωμάοις for Ῥωμαίοις, vii, 6; ὑπατον for ὑπάτων, vii, 15; ἄνδρας
μυριάδων for ἀνδρῶν μυριάδας, viii, 8; omission of τρὶς before χειλίας,
ix, 13; ἐπεσκευσα for ἐπεσκευάσα, x, 18; omission of ναὸν before
ἀγοράν, xi, 10; επεύξησα for ἐπηύξησα, xiv, 4; omission of Ἀρτάξου, xv,
3; μείσζονος for μείζονος, xv, 15; προκατηλειμένας for κατειλημένας,
xv, 17; ἐπειταδε for ἐπίταδε, xvi, 11; βασιλεες for βασιλεῖς, xvi, 22;
βασιλεις for βασιλεὺς, xvii, 4; ἐπείκειαν for ἐπιείκειαν, xviii, 5;
ἀγορᾷ Σεβαστῇ for ἀγορὰ Σεβαστή, xix, 1.
VIII. SIGNS AND ABBREVIATIONS.
The Latin and Greek texts are printed in such a way as to give the
best idea practicable of their actual condition. Roman numerals denote
the pages of the inscription, and the Arabic figures the lines. These
numerals and the chapter headings are no part of the inscription. The
projection of the first line of each chapter in the Latin is the only
method of marking the divisions in the original.
Parts of the Greek and Latin text included within brackets, [], are
conjectural restorations of the portions of the inscription which have
perished. The Greek generally is a guide to the Latin and _vice
versa_, for the instances are rare where both versions have been
lost. The textual notes show that not all scholars have reckoned the
same number of missing letters. These variations are quite allowable,
for it is impossible to say that just so many letters are missing in
any given case, owing to the various sizes of different letters, and
varying degrees of closeness of writing.
Where dots (...) occur, it signifies that Mommsen reckons as many
letters unrestored as there are dots.
The sign § indicates a mark in the original resembling a figure 7, or a
very open 3.
The same sign in brackets [§] indicates an unfilled interval in the
stone.
The apices over vowels in the Latin indicate similar marks in the
original in the case of a, e, o and u, and in the case of i a
prolongation of that letter above the line.
Where certain letters of the Latin text are italicized it indicates
that while they do not appear in the plaster casts, yet they were
traced by Alfred Domaszewski (a fellow-worker with Humann) on the stone
itself, by means of certain discolorations from paint, or gilding, or
weather, which marked the bottom of the incisions of the letters in
several cases where the surface of the stone had been worn away.
In the textual notes, B. stands for Bormann, G. for Geppert, S. for J.
Schmidt, Sk. for Seeck, W. for Wölfflin, Apoll. for the inscription at
Apollonia, and Anc. for that at Ancyra.
The abbreviations of the names of authors and their works in the
historical notes are indicated in the bibliography at the close of the
book.
MONUMENTUM ANCYRANUM.
Rérum gestárum díví Augusti, quibus orbem terra[rum] imperio populi
Rom. subiécit, § et inpensarum, quas in rem publicam populumque
Ro[ma]num fecit, incísarum in duabus aheneís pílís, quae su[n]t Romae
positae, exemplar sub[i]ectum.
I. c. 1.
1 Annós undéviginti natus exercitum priváto consilio et privatá
impensá
2 comparávi, [§] per quem rem publicam [do]minatione factionis
oppressam
3 in libertátem vindicá[vi. Ob quae sen]atus decretis honor[ifi]cis
in
4 ordinem suum m[e adlegit C. Pansa A. Hirti]o consulibu[s,
c]on[sula]—
5 rem locum s[imul dans sententiae ferendae, et im]perium mihi dedit
[§].
6 Rés publica n[e quid detrimenti caperet, me] pro praetore simul cum
7 consulibus pro[videre iussit. Populus] autem eódem anno mé
8 consulem, cum [cos. uterque bello ceci]disset, et trium virum reí
publi-
9 cae constituend[ae creavit].
c. 2.
10 Qui parentem meum [interfecer]un[t, eó]s in exilium expulí
iudiciís legi-
11 timís ultus eórum [fa]cin[us, e]t posteá bellum inferentis reí
publicae
12 víci b[is a]cie.
c. 3.
13 [B]ella terra et mari c[ivilia exter]naque tóto in orbe terrarum
s[uscepi]
14 victorque omnibus [superstitib]us cívibus pepercí. § Exte[rnas]
15 gentés, quibus túto [ignosci pot]ui[t, co]nserváre quam excídere
m[alui].
16 Míllia civium Róma[norum adacta] sacrámento meo fuerunt circiter
[quingen]-
17 ta. § Ex quibus dedú[xi in coloni]ás aut remísi in municipia sua
stipen[dis emeri]-
18 tis millia aliquant[um plura qu]am trecenta et iís omnibus agrós a
[me emptos]
19 aut pecuniam pró p[raediis a] me dedí. § Naves cépi sescen[tas
praeter]
20 eás, si quae minóre[s quam trir]emes fuerunt. §
c. 4.
21 [Bis] ováns triumpha[vi, tris egi c]urulis triumphós et appellá[tus
sum viciens
22 se]mel imperátor. [Cum deinde plú]ris triumphos mihi se[natus
decrevisset,
23 eis su]persedi [§]. I[tem saepe laur]us deposuí, § in Capi[tolio
votis, quae]
24 quóque bello nuncu[paveram, solu]tís. § Ob res á [me aut per
legatos]
25 meós auspicís meis terra m[ariqu]e pr[o]spere gestás qu[inquagiens
et quin]-
26 quiens decrevit senátus supp[lica]ndum esse dís immo[rtalibus.
Dies autem
27 pe]r quós ex senátús consulto [s]upplicátum est, fuere DC[CCLXXXX.
In triumphis
28 meis] ducti sunt ante currum m[e]um regés aut r[eg]um lib[eri
novem. Consul
29 fuer]am terdeciens, c[u]m [scribeb]a[m] haec, [et agebam
se]p[timum et trigensimum annum
30 tribu]niciae potestatis.
c. 5.
31 [Dictatura]m et apsent[i et praesenti mihi datam . . . . . . . a
populo et senatu
32 M. Marce]llo e[t] L. Ar[runtio consulibus non accepi. Non recusavi
in summa
33 frumenti p]enuri[a c]uratio[ne]m an[nonae, qu]am ita
ad[ministravi, ut . . . . .
34 paucis diebu]s metu et per[i]c[lo quo erat populu]m univ[ersum
meis impen-
35 sis liberarem]. § Con[sulatum tum dat]um annuum e[t perpetuum non
36 accepi.
c. 6.
37 Consulibus M. Vinucio et Q. Lucretio et postea P.] et Cn.
L[entulis et tertium
38 Paullo Fabio Maximo et Q. Tuberone senatu populoq]u[e Romano
consen-
39 tientibus]. . . . . . . . . . .
40 . . . . . . . . . . . .
41 . . . . . . . . . . . .
42 . . . . . . . . . . . .
c. 7.
43 . . . . . . . . . . . .
44 . . . . . [Princeps senatus fui usque ad e eum
diem, quo scrips]eram [haec,
45 per annos quadraginta. Pontifex maximus, augur, quindecimviru]m
sacris [faciundis,
46 septemvirum epulonum, frater arvalis, sodalis Titius, fetiali]s
fui.
II. c. 8.
1 Patriciórum numerum auxí consul quintum iussú populi et senátús.
§ Sena-
2 tum ter légi. et In consulátú sexto cénsum populi conlegá M.
Agrippá égí. §
3 Lústrum post annum alterum et quadragensimum féc[i]. § Quó lústro
cívi-
4 um Románórum censa sunt capita quadragiens centum millia et sexa-
5 g[i]nta tria millia. [§] [Iteru]m consulari cum imperio lústrum
6 [s]ólus féci C. Censorin[o et C.] Asinio cos. § Quó lústro censa
sunt
7 cívium Romanóru[m capita] quadragiens centum millia et ducen-
8 ta triginta tria m[illia. Tertiu]m consulári cum imperio lústrum
9 conlegá Tib. Cae[sare filio feci] § Sex. Pompeio et Sex. Appuleio
cos.
10 Quó lústro ce[nsa sunt civium Ro]mánórum capitum quadragiens
11 centum mill[ia et nongenta tr]iginta et septem millia. §
12 Legibus noví[s latis complura e]xempla maiorum exolescentia
13 iam ex nost[ro usu reduxi et ipse] multárum rér[um exem]pla imi-
14 tanda pos[teris tradidi.
c. 9.
15 Vota pro valetudine mea suscipi per cons]ulés et sacerdotes
qu[into]
16 qu[oque anno senatus decrevit. Ex iis] votís s[ae]pe fecerunt vívo
17 _me_ [ludos aliquotiens sacerdotu]m quattuor amplissima collé-
18 [gia, aliquotiens consules. Privat]im etiam et múnicipatim
úniver_si_
19 [cives sacrificaverunt sempe]r apud omnia pulvínária pró vale-
20 [tudine mea.
c. 10.
21 Nomen meum senatus consulto inc]lusum est in saliáre carmen et
sacrosan-
22 [ctus ut essem ....... et ut q]uoa[d] víverem, tribúnicia potestás
mihi
23 [esset, lege sanctum est. Pontif]ex maximus ne fierem in víví
[c]onle-
24 [gae locum, populo id sace]rdotium deferente mihi, quod pater
meu[s
25 habuit, recusavi. Cepi id] sacerdotium aliquod post annós eó mor-
26 [tuo qui civilis motus o]ccasione occupaverat [§], cuncta ex
Italia
27 [ad comitia mea .... tanta mu]ltitudine, quanta Romae nun[q]uam
28 [antea fuisse fertur, coeunte] P. Sulpicio C. Valgio consulibu[s]
§.
c. 11.
29 [Aram Fortunae reduci iuxta? ae]dés Honoris et Virtutis ad portam
30 [Capenam pro reditu meo se]nátus consacravit, in qua ponti-
31 [fices et virgines Vestales anni]versárium sacrificium facere
32 [iussit die, quo consulibus Q. Luc]retio et [M. Vinuci]o in urbem
ex
33 [Syria redi, et diem Augustali]a ex [c]o[gnomine nost]ro
appellavit.
c. 12.
34 [Senatus consulto eodem tempor]e pars [praetorum et tri]bunorum
35 [plebi cum consule Q. Lucret]io et princi[pi]bus [viris ob]viam
mihi
36 mis[s]a e[st in Campan]ia[m, qui] honos [ad hoc tempus] nemini
prae-
37 ter [m]e es[t decretus. Cu]m ex H[ispa]niá Gal[liaque, rebus in
his p]rovincís prosp[e]-
38 re [gest]i[s], R[omam redi] Ti. Ne[r]one P. Qui[ntilio consulibu]s
[§], áram
39 [Pácis A]u[g]ust[ae senatus pro] redi[t]ú meó co[nsacrari censuit]
ad cam-
40 [pum Martium, in qua ma]gistratús et sac[erdotes et virgines]
V[est]á[les
41 anniversarium sacrific]ium facer[e iussit.
c. 13.
42 Ianum] Quirin[um, quem cl]aussum ess[e maiores nostri voluer]unt,
43 [cum p]er totum i[mperium po]puli Roma[ni terra marique es]set
parta vic-
44 [torii]s pax, cum pr[ius, quam] náscerer, [a condita] u[rb]e bis
omnino clausum
45 [f]uisse prodátur m[emori]ae, ter me princi[pe senat]us claudendum
esse censui[t.
c. 14.
46 Fil]ios meos, quós iuv[enes mi]hi eripuit for[tuna], Gaium et
Lucium Caesares
III.
1 honoris mei caussá senatus populusque Romanus annum quíntum et
deci-
2 mum agentís consulés designávit, ut [e]um magistrátum inírent
post quín-
3 quennium. Et ex eó die, quó deducti [s]unt in forum, ut
interessent consiliis
4 publicis decrevit sena[t]us. § Equites [a]utem Románi universi
principem
5 iuventútis utrumque eórum parm[is] et hastís argenteís donátum ap-
6 pelláverunt. §
c. 15.
7 Plebei Románae viritim HS trecenos numeravi ex testámento patris
8 meí, § et nomine meo HS quadringenos ex bellórum manibiís consul
9 quintum dedí, iterum autem in consulátú decimo ex [p]atrimonio
10 meo HS quadringenos congiári viritim pernumer[a]ví, § et consul
11 undecimum duodecim frúmentátiónes frúmento pr[i]vatim coémpto
12 emensus sum, [§] et tribuniciá potestáte duodecimum quadringenós
13 nummós tertium viritim dedí. Quae mea congiaria p[e]rvenerunt
14 ad [homi]num millia nunquam minus quinquáginta et ducenta. §
15 Tribu[nic]iae potestátis duodevicensimum consul XII trecentís et
16 vigint[i] millibus plebís urbánae sexagenós denariós viritim dedí.
§
17 In colon[i]s militum meórum consul quintum ex manibiís viritim
18 millia nummum singula dedi; acceperunt id triumphale congiárium
19 in colo[n]ís hominum circiter centum et viginti millia. § Consul
ter-
20 tium dec[i]mum sexagenós denáriós plebeí, quae tum frúmentum
publicum
21 accipieba[t] dedi; ea millia hominum paullo plúra quam ducenta
fuerunt.
c. 16.
22 Pecuniam [pro] agrís, quós in consulátú meó quárto et posteá
consulibus
23 M. Cr[asso e]t Cn. Lentulo augure adsignávi militibus, solví
múnicipís. Ea
24 [s]u[mma sest]ertium circiter sexsiens milliens fuit, quam [p]ró
Italicís
25 praed[is] numeravi, § et ci[r]citer bis mill[ie]ns et sescentiens,
quod pro agrís
26 próvin[c]ialibus solví. § Id primus et [s]olus omnium, qui
[d]edúxerunt
27 colonias militum in Italiá aut in provincís, ad memor[i]am aetátis
28 meae feci. Et postea Ti. Nerone et Cn. Pisone consulibus, [§]
item[q]ue C. Antistio
29 et D. Laelio cos., et C. Calvisio et L. Pasieno consulibus, et L.
Le[ntulo et] M. Messalla
30 consulibus, § et L. Cánínio [§] et Q. Fabricio co[s.] milit[ibus,
qu]ós eme-
31 riteis stipendís in sua municipi[a remis]i, praem[ia n]umerato
32 persolví [§] quam in rem seste[rtium] q[uater m]illien[s
li]b[ente]r
33 impendi.
c. 17.
34 Quater [pe]cuniá meá iuví aerárium, ita ut sestertium míllien[s] et
35 quing[en]t[ien]s ad eos quí praerant aerário detulerim. Et M.
Lep[i]do
36 et L. Ar[r]unt[i]o cos. i[n] aerarium militare, quod ex consilio
m[eo]
37 co[nstitut]um est, ex [q]uo praemia darentur militibus, qui vicena
38 [aut plu]ra sti[pendi]a emeruissent, [§] HS milliens et
septing[e]nti-
39 [ens ex pa]t[rim]onio [m]eo detuli. §
c. 18.
40 Inde ab eo anno, q]uo Cn. et P. Lentuli c[ons]ules fuerunt, cum
d[e]ficerent
41 [vecti]g[alia, tum] centum millibus h[omi]num tu[m pl]uribus
i[nl]ato fru-
42 [mento vel ad n]umma[rió]s t[ributus ex agro] et pat[rimonio]
m[e]o
43 [opem tuli].
IV. c. 19.
1 Cúriam et continens eí Chalcidicum, templumque Apollinis in
2 Palatio cum porticibus, aedem dívi Iulí, Lupercal, porticum ad
cir-
3 cum Fláminium, quam sum appellári passus ex nómine eíus qui pri-
4 órem eódem in solo fecerat Octaviam, pulvinar ad circum maximum,
5 aedés in Capitolio Iovis feretri et Iovis tonantis, [§] aedem
Quiriní, §
6 aedés Minervae § et Iúnonis reginae § et Iovis Libertatis in
Aventíno, §
7 aedem Larum in summá sacrá viá, § aedem deum Penátium in Velia, §
8 aedem Iuventátis, § aedem Mátris Magnae in Palátio fécí. §
c. 20.
9 Capitolium et Pompeium theatrum utrumque opus impensá grandí reféci
10 sine ullá inscriptione nominis meí. § Rívos aquarum complúribus
locís
11 vetustáte labentés refécí, [§] et aquam quae Márcia appellátur
duplicavi
12 fonte novo in rivum eius inmisso. § Forum Iúlium et basilicam,
13 quae fuit inter aedem Castoris et aedem Saturni, [§] coepta
profligata-
14 que opera á patre meó perféci § et eandem basilicam consumptam in-
15 cendio ampliáto eius solo sub titulo nominis filiórum m[eorum i]n-
16 choavi [§] et, si vivus nón perfecissem, perfici ab heredib[us
iussi].
17 Duo et octoginta templa deum in urbe consul sext[um ex decreto]
18 senatus reféci, nullo praetermisso quod e[o] temp[ore refici
debebat].
19 Con[s]ul septimum viam Flaminiam a[b urbe] Ari[minum feci et
pontes]
20 omnes praeter Mulvium et Minucium.
c. 21.
21 In privato solo Mártis Ultoris templum [f]orumque Augustum [ex
mani]-
22 biís fecí. § Theatrum ad aede Apollinis in solo magná ex parte á
p[r]i[v]atis
23 empto féci, quod sub nomine M. Marcell[i] generi mei esset. §
Don[a e]x
24 manibiís in Capitolio et in aede dívi Iú[l]í et in aede Apollinis
et in ae-
25 de Vestae et in templo Martis Ultoris consacrávi, § quae mihi
consti-
26 terunt HS circiter milliens. § Aurí coronárí pondo triginta et
quin-
27 que millia múnicipiís et colonís Italiae conferentibus ad
triumphó[s]
28 meós quintum consul remisi, et posteá, quotienscumque imperátor
a[ppe]l-
29 látus sum, aurum coronárium nón accepi decernentibus municipií[s]
30 et coloni[s] aequ[e] beni[g]ne adque antea decreverant.
c. 22.
31 _T_[e]_r mu_nus gladiátorium dedí meo nomine et
quinquens filiórum me[o]-
32 rum aut n[e]pótum nomine; quibus muneribus depugnaverunt homi-
33 nu[m] ci[rc]iter decem millia. [§] Bis [at]hletarum undique
accitorum
34 spec[ta]c[lum po]pulo pra[ebui meo] nómine et tertium nepo[tis]
mei no-
35 mine. § L[u]dos feci m[eo no]m[ine] quater [§], aliorum autem
m[agist]rá-
36 tu[um] vicem ter et vicie[ns] [§]. [Pr]o conlegio XV virorum
magis[ter con-
37 l]e[gi]í colleg[a] M. Ag_ri_ppa [§] lud[os s]aecl[are]s C.
Furnio C. [S]ilano cos. [feci.
38 C]on[sul XIII] ludos Mar[tia]les pr[imus feci], qu[os] p[ost i]d
tempus deincep[s]
39 ins[equen]ti[bus ann]is ......... [fecerunt co]n[su]les. [§]
[Ven]ati[o]n[es] best[ia]-
40 rum Africanárum meo nómine aut filio[ru]m meórum et nepotum in
ci[r]-
41 co aut [i]n foro aut in amphitheatris popul[o d]edi sexiens et
viciens, quibus
42 confecta sunt bestiarum circiter tria m[ill]ia et quingentae.
c. 23.
43 Navalis proelí spectaclum populo de[di tr]ans Tiberim, in quo loco
44 nunc nemus est Caesarum, cavato [solo] in longitudinem mille
45 et octingentós pedés, [§] in látitudine[m mille] e[t] ducentí. In
quo tri-
46 ginta rostrátae náves trirémes a[ut birem]és, [§] plures autem
47 minóres inter se conflixérunt. Q[uibus in] classibus pugnave-
48 runt praeter rémigés millia ho[minum tr]ia circiter. §
c. 24.
49 In templís omnium civitátium pr[ovinci]ae Asiae victor orna-
50 menta reposui, quae spoliátis tem[plis is] cum quó bellum gesseram
51 privátim possederat §. Statuae [mea]e pedestrés et equestres et in
52 quadrigeis argenteae steterunt in urbe XXC circiter, quas ipse
53 sustuli [§] exque eá pecuniá dona aurea in áede Apol[li]nis meó
nomi-
54 ne et illórum, qui mihi statuárum honórem habuerunt, posui. §
V. c. 25.
1 Mare pacávi á praedonibus. Eó belló servórum, qui fugerant á
dominis
2 suis et arma contrá rem publicam céperant, triginta fere millia
capta §
3 dominis ad supplicium sumendum tradidi. § Iuravit in mea verba
tóta
4 Italia sponte suá et me be[lli], quó víci ad Actium, ducem
depoposcit. § Iura-
5 verunt in eadem ver[ba provi]nciae Galliae Hispaniae Africa
Sicilia Sar-
6 dinia. § Qui sub [signis meis tum] militaverint, fuerunt senátórés
plúres
7 quam DCC, in ií[s qui vel antea vel pos]teá consules facti sunt ad
eum diem
8 quó scripta su[nt haec, LXXXIII, sacerdo]tés ci[rc]iter CLXX. §
c. 26.
9 Omnium próv[inciarum populi Romani], quibus finitimae fuerunt
10 gentés quae n[on parerent imperio nos]tro, fines auxi. Gallias et
Hispa-
11 niás próviciá[s et Germaniam qua inclu]dit óceanus a Gádibus ad
ósti-
12 um Albis flúm[inis pacavi. Alpes a re]gióne eá quae proxima est
Ha-
13 driánó marí, [ad Tuscum pacari fec]i nullí gentí bello per
iniúriam
14 inláto. § Cla[ssis mea per Oceanum] ab óstio Rhéni ad sólis
orientis re-
15 gionem usque ad fi[nes Cimbroru]m navigavit, [§] quó neque terra
neque
16 mari quisquam Romanus ante id tempus adít, § Cimbrique et Charydes
17 et Semnones et eiusdem tractús alií Germánórum popu[l]i per
legátós amici-
18 tiam meam et populi Románi petierunt. § Meo iussú et auspicio
ducti sunt
19 [duo] exercitús eódem fere tempore in Aethiopiam et in Ar[a]biam,
quae appel-
20 [latur] eudaemón, [maxim]aeque hos[t]ium gentís utr[iu]sque
cop[iae]
21 caesae sunt in acie et [c]om[plur]a oppida capta. In Aethiopi_a_m
usque a_d_ o_p_pi-
22 dum Nabata pervent[um] est, cuí proxima est Meroé. In Arabiam
usque
23 ín fínés Sabaeorum pro[cess]it exerc[it]us ad oppidum Mariba. §
c. 27.
24 Aegyptum imperio populi [Ro]mani adieci. § Armeniam maiorem inter-
25 fecto rége eius Artaxe § c[u]m possem facere provinciam, málui
maiórum
26 nostrórum exemplo regn[u]m id Tigrani regis Artavasdis filio,
nepoti au-
27 tem Tigránis regis, per T[i. Ne]ronem trad[er]e, qui tum mihi
priv[ig]nus erat.
28 Et eandem gentem posteá d[esc]íscentem et rebellantem d_o_mit[a]m
per Gai_u_m
29 filium meum regi Ario[barz]ani regis Medorum Artaba[zi] filio
_rege_n-
30 dam tradidi [§] et post e[ius] mortem filio eius Artavasdi. [§]
Quo [inte]rfecto [Tigra]-
31 ne, qui erat ex régió genere Armeniorum oriundus, in id re[gnum]
mísí. § Pro-
32 vincias omnís, quae trans Hadrianum mare vergun[t a]d Orien[te]m,
Cyre-
33 násque, iam ex parte magná regibus eas possidentibus, e[t] _ante_a
Siciliam
34 et Sardiniam occu_pat_ás bello servili reciperávi. §
c. 28.
35 Colonias in Áfri_ca Sicilia_ [M]acedoniá utráque Hispániá
Achai[a] As_i_a S[y]_ri_a
36 Galliá Narb_onensi Pi_[si]_dia_ militum dedúxi §. Italia
autem XXVIII [colo]ni-
37 ás, quae vívo _me celeberrimae_ et frequentissimae fuerunt,
me[is auspicis]
38 deductas h_abet_.
c. 29.
39 Signa mílitaria _complur_[a per] aliós d[u]_c_és ámi[ssa]
devicti[s hostibu]s re[cipe]ravi
40 ex His_pania et_ [Gallia et a Dalm]ateis. § Parthos trium
exercitum Roman[o]-
41 rum _spolia et signa re_[ddere] mihi supplicesque amicitiam
populí Romaní
42 petere _coegi_. § _Ea autem si_[gn]a in penetrálí, quod
e[s]t ín templo Martis Ultoris,
43 reposui.
c. 30.
44 Pannonio_rum gentes_, _qua_[s a]nte me principem populi
Romaní exercitus nun-
45 quam ad[i]_t_, _devictas per Ti._ [Ne]ronem, qui tum
erat privignus et legátus meus,
46 ímperio po_puli Roma_ni _s_[ubie]ci, protulique finés
Illyrici _ad_ r[ip]am flúminis
47 Dan[u]i. Citr[a] quod [D]ac[or]u[m tr]an[s]gressus exercitus meis
a[u]sp[icis vict]us profliga-
48 tusque [est, et postea tran]s Dan[u]vium ductus ex[ercitus me]u[s]
Da[cor]um
49 gentes im[peria populi Romani perferre coegit.]
c. 31.
50 Ad me ex In[dia regum legationes saepe missae sunt, nunquam antea
visae]
51 apud qu[em]q[uam] R[omanorum du]cem. § Nostram am[icitiam
petierunt]
52 per legat[os] B[a]starn[ae Scythae]que et Sarmatarum q[ui sunt
citra flu]men
53 Tanaim [et] ultrá reg[es, Alba]norumque réx et Hibér[orum et
Medorum.]
c. 32.
54 Ad mé supplices confug[erunt] regés Parthorum Tírida[tes et
postea] Phrát[es]
VI.
1 regis Phrati[s filius]; [§] Medorum [Artavasdes; Adiabenorum
A]rtaxa-
2 res §; Britann[o]rum Dumnobellau[nus] _et Tim_......;
[Sugambrorum]
3 Maelo; § Mar[c]omanórum Sueboru[m .....rus]. [Ad me] rex
_Part_horum
4 Phrates Orod[i]s filius filiós suós nepot[esque omnes misit] _in
Ital_iam, non
5 bello superátú[s], sed amicitiam nostram per [liberorum] suorum
pignora
6 petens. § Plúrimaeque aliae gentes exper[tae sunt p. R.]
_fide_m me prin-
7 cipe, quibus anteá cum populo Roman[o nullum extitera]t legationum
8 et amícitiae [c]ommercium. §
c. 33.
9 Á me gentés Parthórum et Médóru[m per legatos] principes eárum gen-
10 tium régés pet[i]tós accéperunt Par[thi Vononem regis Phr]átis
fílium,
11 régis Oródis nepótem; § Médí Ar[iobarzanem] regis Artavazdis fi-
12 lium, regis Ariobarzanis nep[otem].
c. 34.
13 Ín consulátú sexto et septimo, b[ella ubi civil]ia exstinxeram
14 per consénsum úniversórum [potitus rerum omn]ium, rem publicam
15 ex meá potestáte [§] in senát[us populique Romani a]rbitrium
transtulí.
16 Quó pro merito meó senatu[s consulto Aug. appe]llátus sum et
laureís
17 postés aedium meárum v[estiti publice coronaq]ue civíca super
18 iánuam meam fíxa est [§] [clupeusque aureu]s in [c]úriá Iúliá
posi-
19 tus, quem mihi senatum [populumque Romanu]m dare virtutis cle-
20 [mentia]e iustitia[e pietatis causa testatum] est pe[r e]ius
clúpei
21 [inscription]em. § Post id tem[pus praestiti omnibus dignitate
potes-
22 t]atis au[tem n]ihilo ampliu[s habui quam qui fuerunt m]ihi quo-
23 que in ma[gis]tra[t]u conlegae.
c. 35.
24 Tertium dec[i]mum consulátu[m cum gerebam, senatus et equ]ester
ordo
25 populusq[ue] Románus úniversus [appellavit me patrem p]atriae
idque
26 in vestibu[lo a]edium meárum inscriben[dum esse et in curia e]t in
foró Aug.
27 sub quadrig[i]s, quae mihi [ex] s. c. pos[itae sunt, decrevit. Cum
scri]psi haec,
28 annum agebam septuagensu[mum sextum].
c. 1.
29 Summá pecún[i]ae, quam ded[it in aerarium vel plebei Romanae vel
di]mis-
30 sis militibus: denarium se[xi]e[ns milliens].
c. 2.
31 Opera fecit nova § aedem Martis, [Iovis tonantis et feretri,
Apollinis],
32 díví Iúli, § Quirini, § Minervae, [Iunonis reginae, Iovis
Libertatis],
33 Larum, deum Penátium, [§] Iuv[entatis, Matris deum, Lupercal,
pulvina]r
34 ad circum, [§] cúriam cum ch[alcidico, forum Augustum, basilica]m
35 Iuliam, theatrum Marcelli, [§] [p]or[ticus .........., nemus trans
T]iberím
36 Caesarum. §
c. 3.
37 Refécit Capito[lium sacra]sque ae_d_es [nu]m[ero octoginta]
duas, thea[t]rum Pom-
38 peí, aqu[arum rivos, vi]am Flamin[iam].
c. 4.
39 Ímpensa p....... [in spect]acul[a scaenica et munera] gladiatorum
at-
40 [que athletas et venationes et naum]ach[iam] et donata pe[c]unia a
(?)
41 . . . . . . . . . . . . [ter]rae motu § incendioque consum-
42 pt[is] a[ut viritim] a[micis senat]oribusque, quórum census
explévit,
43 in[n]umera[bili]s. §
I, 3. ob quae, W. quas ob res; S. and B. propter quae.
I, 5. ferendae, W. dicendae; simul ..... ferendae, B. sententiae
dicendae mihi dans; after dedit B. erases [§].
I, 7. jussit, B. jubens.
I, 14. superstitibus, Sk. following Hirschfield, veniam
petentibus.
I, 18. aliquantum, B. and W. aliquanto; a me emptos, B. following
Bergk, adsignavi.
I, 19. praediis a me, B. and W. praemiis militiae (me in stone
might be iae.)
I, 22. deinde, B. autem.
I, 23. decrevisset, S. decerneret; item saepe, S. itaque modo;
item saepe laurus, B. laurumque potius.
I, 29. agebam, B. following Bergk, eram, and omits annum.
I, 31. datam......... a populo et senatu, W. nomine populi et
senatus oblatam; S. a populo et senatu ultro delatam; et
senatu, S. senatuque Romano.
I, 33, 34. ut......... paucis diebus, W. uti intra paucos dies;
B. ut paucissimis diebus.
I, 34. quo erat, W. and S. praesenti.
I, 34, 35. meis impensis, W. privata impensa; S. meis sumptibus.
II, 9. S. inserts meo after filio.
II, 12. complura, B. et multa.
II, 13. reduxi, B. sanxi; S. revocavi.
II, 15. suscipi, B. suscipere,
II, 16. iis, S. quibus.
II, 17. me ludos aliquotiens, W. mihi ludos interdum; aliquotiens,
B. votivos modo.
II, 18. aliquotiens, W. interdum; aliquotiens consules, B. modo
consules ejus anni.
II, 19. sacrificaverunt, B. sacrificia; W. supplicaverunt; semper,
B. concorditer; W. unanimiter.
II, 20. B. adds fecerunt.
II, 22. sacrosanctus ut essem ........ W. sacrosancta ut esset
persona mea, or sacrosancta potestate ut essem.
II, 25. habuit, B. habuerat; cepi id, B. quod.
II, 26. qui civilis motus, B, suscepi qui id tumultus.
II, 27. ad comitia mea ......... B. propter mea comitia, or
comitiorum caussa; Sk. inserts coeunte before ad.
II, 28. fertur, Sk. memoriae proditur; omits coeunte.
II, 29. reduci, B. reducis.
II, 32. B. inserts eo before die.
II, 33. redi, B. redieram.
II, 36. S. inserts ante after honos.
II, 42. S. inserts tum after quem.
III, 17. In, W. et.
III, 40. W. Jam before inde.
III, 41. vectigalia, Sk. publicani.
III, 41-43. inlato......... tuli, S. multo frumentarias et
nummarias tessaras ex aere et patrimonio meo dedi.
III, 42. vel......... agro, W. atque nummariis tesseris divisis;
tributus, Sk. titulos.
III, 43. opem tuli, Sk. and W. subveni.
IV, 19. W. omits feci; inserts in ea after pontes.
V, 7. qui vel antea vel, S. consulares, et qui.
V, 11. et Germaniam qua includit, W. item Germaniam qua claudit.
V, 13. pacem feci. W. pacificavi.
V, 37. meis auspiciis, W. mea auctoritate.
V, 49. imperia, W. imperium; perferre, W. accipere;
S. sustinere.
VI, 7. extiterat, S. fuerat.
VI, 13. bella ubi, S. postquam bella; ubi, G. cum.
VI, 16. Aug. S. Augustus.
VI, 17. vestiti, W. velati sunt; S. inserts sunt after vestiti.
VI, 22. quam, G. iis.
Μεθηρμηνευμέναι ὑπεγράφησαν πράξεις τε καὶ δωρεαὶ Σεβαστοῦ θεοῦ, ἃς
ἀπέλιπεν ἐπὶ Ῥώμης ἐνκεχαραγμένας χαλκαῖς στήλαις δυσί.
I. c. 1.
1 Ἐτῶν δεκαε[ν]νέα ὢν τὸ στράτευμα ἐμῇ γνώμῃ καὶ
2 ἐμοῖς ἀν[αλ]ώμασιν ἡτοί[μασα], δι’ οὗ τὰ κοινὰ πρά-
3 γματα [ἐκ τῆ]ς τ[ῶ]ν συνο[μοσα]μένων δουλήας
4 [ἠλευ]θέ[ρωσα. Ἐφ’ ο]ἷς ἡ σύνκλητος ἐπαινέσασά
5 [με ψηφίσμασι] προσκατέλεξε τῇ βουλῇ Γαΐῳ Πά[νσ]α
6 [Αὔλῳ Ἱρτίῳ ὑ]π[ά]το[ι]ς, ἐν τῇ τάξει τῶν ὑπατ[ικῶ]ν
7 [ἅμα τ]ὸ σ[υμβου]λεύειν δοῦσα, ῥάβδου[ς] τ’ ἐμοὶ ἔδωκεν.
8 [Περ]ὶ τὰ δημόσια πράγματα μή τι βλαβῇ, ἐμοὶ με-
9 [τὰ τῶν ὑπά]των προνοεῖν ἐπέτρεψεν ἀντὶ στρατηγο[ῦ.]
10 [..... Ὁ δὲ] δ[ῆ]μος τῷ αὐτῷ ἐνιαυτῷ, ἀμφοτέρων
11 [τῶν ὑπάτων π]ολέμῳ πεπτω[κ]ό[τ]ων, ἐμὲ ὕπα-
12 [τον ἀπέδειξ]εν καὶ τὴν τῶν τριῶν ἀνδρῶν ἔχον-
13 [τα ἀρχὴν ἐπὶ] τῇ καταστάσει τῶν δ[η]μοσίων πρα-
14 [γμάτων] ε[ἵλ]ατ[ο.
c. 2.
15 Τοὺς τὸν πατέρα τὸν ἐμὸν φονεύ]σ[αν]τ[α]ς ἐξώρισα κρί-
16 [σεσιν ἐνδί]κοις τειμω[ρ]ησάμε[ν]ος αὐτῶν τὸ
17 [ἀσέβημα κ]αὶ [με]τὰ ταῦτα αὐτοὺς πόλεμον ἐ-
18 [πιφέροντας τῇ πα]τ[ρ]ίδι δὶς ἐνείκησα παρατάξει.
c. 3.
19 [Πολέμους καὶ κατὰ γῆν] καὶ κατὰ θάλασσαν ἐμφυ-
20 [λίους καὶ ἐξωτικοὺς] ἐν ὅλῃ τῇ οἰκουμένῃ πολ-
21 [λοὺς ἀνεδεξάμην, νεικ]ήσας τε πάντων ἐφεισάμην
22 [τῶν περιόντων πολειτῶν. τ]ὰ ἔθνη, οἷς ἀσφαλὲς ἦν συν-
23 [γνώμην ἔχειν, ἔσωσα μ]ᾶλ[λον] ἢ ἐξέκοψα. § Μυριάδες
II.
1 Ῥωμαίων στρατ[εύ]σ[ασ]αι ὑπ[ὸ τὸ]ν ὅρκον τὸν ἐμὸν
2 ἐγένοντ[ο] ἐνγὺς π[εντήκ]ο[ντ]α· [ἐ]ξ ὧν κατή[γ]αγον εἰς
3 τὰ[ς] ἀπο[ι]κίας ἢ ἀ[πέπεμψα εἰς τὰς] ἰδία[ς πόλεις] ἐκ-
4 [λυομένους.] . . . . . . . .
5 . . . . . . . . . . .
6 . . . . . . . . . . .
7 . . . . . . . . . . .
8 . . . . . . . . . . .
c. 4.
9 Δὶς ἐ[πὶ κέλητος ἐθριάμβευσα], τρὶς [ἐ]φ’ ἅρματος. Εἰκο-
10 σά[κις καὶ ἅπαξ προσηγορεύθην αὐτο]κράτωρ. Τῆς
11 [συνκλήτου] . . . . ψηφισσ . . .
12 . . . . . . . . ων τὴν [δάφνην]
13 . . . . . . . . . . .
14 . . . . . . . . . . .
15 . . . . . . [Διὰ τὰ πράγ]μ[ατα, ἃ]
16 [αὐτὸς ἢ διὰ τῶν πρεσβευτῶν ἐμῶν] κατώρθω-
17 σα, π[εντ]ηκοντάκις [καὶ] πεντά[κις ἐψ]ηφίσατο ἡ
18 σύ[νκλητ]ος θεοῖς δεῖ[ν] θύεσθαι. [Ἡμ]έραι οὖν αὗ-
19 [τα]ι ἐ[κ συ]ν[κλήτου] δ[ό]γματ[ο]ς ἐγένοντο ὀκτα[κ]όσιαι ἐνενή-
20 [κοντα]. Ἐν [τ]οῖς ἐμοῖς [θριάμ]βοις [πρὸ το]ῦ ἐμοῦ ἅρ-
21 μ[ατος βασι]λεῖς ἢ [βασιλέων παῖ]δες [παρήχθ]ησαν
22 ἐννέα. § [Ὑπάτ]ε[υ]ον τρὶς καὶ δέκ[ατο]ν, ὅτε τ[αῦ]τα ἔγραφον,
23 καὶ ἤμη[ν τρια]κ[οστὸ]ν καὶ ἕβδομ[ον δημαρχ]ικῆς
III.
1 ἐξουσίας
c. 5.
2 Αὐτεξούσιόν μοι ἀρχὴν καὶ ἀπόντι καὶ παρόντι
3 διδομένην [ὑ]πό τε τοῦ δήμου καὶ τῆς συνκλήτου
4 Μ[άρκ]ῳ [Μ]αρκέλλῳ καὶ Λευκίῳ Ἀρρουντίῳ ὑπάτοις
5 ο[ὐκ ἐδ]εξάμην. § Οὐ παρητησάμην ἐν τῇ μεγίστῃ
6 [τοῦ] σ[είτ]ου σπάνει τὴν ἐπιμέλειαν τῆς ἀγορᾶς, ἣν οὕ-
7 [τως ἐπετήδευ]σα, ὥστ’ ἐν ὀλίγαις ἡμέρα[ις το]ῦ παρόντος
8 φόβου καὶ κι[νδ]ύνου ταῖς ἐμαῖς δαπάναις τὸν δῆμον
9 ἐλευθερῶσα[ι]. Ὑπατείαν τέ μοι τότε δι[δ]ομένην καὶ
10 ἐ[ν]ιαύσιον κα[ὶ δ]ι[ὰ] βίου οὐκ ἐδεξάμην.
c. 6.
11 Ὑπάτοις Μάρκῳ Οὐινουκίῳ καὶ Κοίντῳ Λ[ουκρ]ητ[ίῳ]
12 καὶ μετὰ τα[ῦ]τα Ποπλίῳ καὶ Ναίῳ Λέντλοις καὶ
13 τρίτον Παύλλῳ Φαβίῳ Μαξίμῳ καὶ Κοίν[τῳ] Του-
14 βέρωι § τῆς [τε σ]υνκλήτου καὶ τοῦ δήμου τοῦ
15 Ῥωμαίων ὁμολογ[ο]ύντων, ἵν[α ἐπιμε]λητὴς
16 τῶν τε νόμων καὶ τῶν τρόπων ἐ[πὶ τῇ με]γίστῃ
17 [ἐξ]ουσ[ίᾳ μ]ό[νο]ς χειροτονηθῷ §, ἀρχὴν οὐδε-
18 μ[ία]ν πα[ρὰ τὰ πά]τρ[ια] ἔ[θ]η διδομένην ἀνεδε-
19 ξάμην· § ἃ δὲ τότε δι’ ἐμοῦ ἡ σύνκλητος οἰ-
20 κονομεῖσθαι ἐβούλετο, τῆς δημαρχικῆς ἐξο[υ]-
21 σίας ὢν ἐτέλε[σα. Κ]αὶ ταύτης αὐτῆς τῆς ἀρχῆς
22 συνάρχοντα [αὐτ]ὸς ἀπὸ τῆς συνκλήτου π[εν]-
23 τάκις αἰτήσας [ἔλ]αβον.
IV. c. 7.
1 Τριῶν ἀνδρῶν ἐγενόμην δημοσίων πραγμάτων
2 κατορθωτὴς συνεχέσιν ἔτεσιν δέκα. § Πρῶτον
3 ἀξιώματος τόπον ἔσχον τῆς συνκλήτου ἄχρι
4 ταύτης τῆς ἡμέρας, ἧς ταῦτα ἔγραφον, ἐπὶ ἔτη τεσ-
5 σαράκοντα. § Ἀρχιερεύς, § αὔγουρ, § τῶν δεκαπέντε ἀν-
6 δρῶν τῶν ἱεροποιῶν, § τῶν ἑπτὰ ἀνδρῶν ἱεροποι-
7 ῶν, § ἀ[δε]λφὸς ἀρουᾶλις, § ἑταῖρος Τίτιος, § φητιᾶλις.
c. 8.
8 Τῶν [πατ]ρικίων τὸν ἀριθμὸν εὔξησα πέμπτον
9 ὕπατ[ος ἐπιτ]αγῇ τοῦ τε δήμου καὶ τῆς συνκλὴ-
10 του. § [Τὴν σύ]νκλητον τρὶς ἐπέλεξα. § Ἕκτον ὕπα-
11 τος τὴν ἀπ[ο]τείμησιν τοῦ δήμου συνάρχον-
12 [τ]α ἔχων Μᾶρκον Ἀγρίππαν ἔλαβον, ἧτις ἀπο-
13 [τείμη]σις μετὰ [δύο καὶ] τεσσαρακοστὸν ἐνιαυ-
14 τὸν [σ]υνε[κ]λείσθη. Ἐν ᾗ ἀποτειμήσει Ῥωμαίων
15 ἐτει[μήσ]α[ντο] κεφαλαὶ τετρακό[σιαι ἑ]ξήκον-
16 τα μυ[ριάδες καὶ τρισχίλιαι. Δεύτερον ὑ]πατι-
17 κῇ ἐξ[ουσίᾳ μόνος Γαΐῳ Κηνσωρίνῳ καὶ]
18 Γαίῳ [Ἀσινίῳ ὑπάτοις τὴν ἀποτείμησιν ἔλαβον·]
19 ἐν [ᾗ] ἀπ[οτειμήσει ἐτειμήσαντο Ῥωμαί]-
20 ων τετ[ρακόσιαι εἴκοσι τρεῖς μυριάδες καὶ τ]ρι[σ]-
21 χίλιοι. Κ[αὶ τρίτον ὑπατικῇ ἐξουσίᾳ τὰς ἀποτειμή]-
22 σε[ι]ς ἔλα[βο]ν, [ἔχω]ν [συνάρχοντα Τιβέριον]
23 Καίσαρα τὸν υἱόν μο[υ Σέξτῳ Πομπηίῳ καὶ]
V.
1 Σέξτῳ Ἀππουληίῳ ὑπάτοις· ἐν ᾗ ἀποτειμήσει
2 ἐτειμήσαντο Ῥωμαίων τετρακόσιαι ἐνενήκοντα
3 τρεῖς μυριάδες καὶ ἑπτακισχείλιοι. § Εἰσαγαγὼν και-
4 νοὺς νόμους πολλὰ ἤδη τῶν ἀρχαίων ἐθῶν κα-
5 ταλυόμενα διωρθωσάμην καὶ αὐτὸς πολλῶν
6 πραγμάτων μείμημα ἐμαυτὸν τοῖς μετέπει-
7 τα παρέδωκα.
c. 9.
8 Εὐχὰς ὑπὲρ τῆς ἐμῆς σωτηρίας ἀναλαμβάνειν
9 διὰ τῶν ὑπάτων καὶ ἱερέων καθ’ ἑκάστην πεν-
10 τετηρίδα ἐψηφίσατο ἡ σύνκλητος. ἐκ τού-
11 των τῶν εὐχῶν πλειστάκις ἐγένοντο θέαι,
12 τοτὲ μὲν ἐκ τῆς συναρχίας τῶν τεσσάρων ἱερέ-
13 ων, τοτὲ δὲ ὑπὸ τῶν ὑπάτων. Καὶ κατ’ ἰδίαν δὲ καὶ
14 κατὰ πόλεις σύνπαντες οἱ πολεῖται ὁμοθυμα-
15 δ[ὸν] συνεχῶς ἔθυσαν ὑπὲρ τῆς ἐμῆς σω[τ]ηρίας.
c. 10.
16 Τὸ ὄν[ομ]ά μου συνκλήτου δόγματι ἐνπεριελή-
17 φθη εἰ[ς τοὺ]ς σαλίων ὕμνους. καὶ ἵνα ἱερὸς ᾦ
18 διὰ [βίο]υ [τ]ε τὴν δημαρχικὴν ἔχῳ ἐξουσίαν,
19 νό[μῳ ἐκ]υρώθη. § Ἀρχιερωσύνην, ἣν ὁ πατήρ
20 [μ]ου [ἐσχ]ήκει τοῦ δήμου μοι καταφέροντος
21 εἰς τὸν τοῦ ζῶντος τόπον, οὐ προσεδεξά-
22 μ[η]ν. § [ἣ]ν ἀρχιερατείαν μετά τινας ἐνιαυτοὺς
VI.
1 ἀποθανόντος τοῦ προκατειληφότος αὐ-
2 τὴν ἐν πολειτικαῖς ταραχαῖς, ἀνείληφα, εἰς
3 τὰ ἐμὰ ἀρχαιρέσια ἐξ ὅλης τῆς Ἰταλίας τοσού-
4 του πλήθους συνεληλυθότος, ὅσον οὐδεὶς
5 ἔνπροσθεν ἱστόρησεν ἐπὶ Ῥώμης γεγονέναι Πο-
6 πλίῳ Σουλπικίῳ καὶ Γαίῳ Οὐαλγίῳ ὑπάτοις.
c. 11.
7 Βωμὸν Τύχης σωτηρίου ὑπὲρ τῆς ἐμῆς ἐπανόδου
8 πρὸς τῇ Καπήνῃ πύλῃ ἡ σύνκλητος ἀφιέρωσεν·
9 πρὸς ᾧ τοὺς ἱερεῖς καὶ τὰς ἱερείας, ἐνιαύσιον θυ-
10 σίαν ποιεῖν ἐκέλευσεν ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ,
11 ἐν ᾗ ὑπάτοις Κοίντῳ Λουκρητίῳ καὶ Μάρκῳ
12 Οὐινουκίῳ ἐκ Συρίας εἰς Ῥώμην ἐπανεληλύ-
13 θει[ν], τήν τε ἡμέραν ἐκ τῆς ἡμετέρας ἐπωνυ-
14 μίας προσηγόρευσεν Αὐγουστάλια.
c. 12.
15 Δόγματι σ[υ]νκλήτου οἱ τὰς μεγίστας ἀρχὰς ἄρ-
16 ξαντε[ς σ]ὺν μέρει στρατηγῶν καὶ δημάρχων
17 μετὰ ὑπ[ά]του Κοίντου Λουκρητίου ἐπέμφθη-
18 σάν μοι ὑπαντήσοντες μέχρι Καμπανίας, ἥτις
19 τειμὴ μέχρι τούτου οὐδὲ ἑνὶ εἰ μὴ ἐμοὶ ἐψηφίσ-
20 θη. § Ὅτε ἐξ Ἱσπανίας καὶ Γαλατίας, τῶν ἐν ταύ-
21 ταις ταῖς ἐπαρχείαις πραγμάτων κατὰ τὰς εὐ-