Monumentum Ancyranum

Note 103 — Below is a copy of the deeds of the divine Augustus, by which he subjected the whole world to the dominion of the Roman people, and of the amounts which he expended upon the commonwealth and the Roman people, as engraved upon two brazen columns which are set up at Rome.1

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There is abundant testimony to this architectural activity. Cf. Suet. Aug. 29 and 30; Dio, LIII, 2; LVI, 40; Livy IV, 20; Ovid, Fasti, II, 59; Hor. Carm., III, 6. Nor was this the zeal of a mere archæologist and architect. The emperor was anxious for a revival of religious observance, as a conservative force in his new organization of the state.

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