Monumentum Ancyranum

Note 138 — 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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This statement varies somewhat from Dio, L, 24, who says Augustus reached the Danube in 720, and from Suetonius, Tib. 16, who assigns the complete subjection of the district to 759.

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