Monumentum Ancyranum

Note 140 — 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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Cf. Suet. Aug., 21; Flor. IV, 12, 62; Oros., VI, 21, 19, says that deputies of Indians and Scythians came to Augustus at Tarracona in 728 or 729; Dio, LIV, 9, that deputies from India came to him at Samos in 734. Strabo gives the name of the Indian king as Porus. Cf. XV., 1, 4 and 73. Cf. also Ver. Georg., II, 170; Aen., VI, 794; VIII, 705; Hor. Carm., I, 12, 56; Carm. Saec., 55, 56; Carm., IV, 14, 41.

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