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Note 141 — 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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For a general statement, cf. Suetonius, Aug. 21. For the Scythians, cf. Note 140, above. For the Bastarnæ, cf. Livy, Ep. CXXXIV; Dio, LI, 23, 24. For the Sarmatæ, cf. Flor. l. c.; Strabo, II, 5, 30; Tac. Ann., VI, 33; Pliny, Hist. Nat., II, 108, 246; VI, 7, 19; VI, 5, 16; VI, 13, 40. Vergil refers to them as Gelones. Cf. Aen., VIII, 725. Cf. also Hor. Carm., II, 9; III, 8, 23. For the Albani and Iberi, cf. Dio, XLIX, 24. For the Medes, cf. c. 27 and notes.

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