Monumentum Ancyranum

Note 145 — 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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Augustus several times was on the point of invading Britain. Cf. Dio, XLIX, 38, for 720; LIII, 22, 25, for 727, 728. The poets have many prophecies of victories in Britain. Cf. Ver. Georg., I, 30, written in 724; III, 25; Hor. Epode, VII, 7; Carm., I. 35, 29, of the year 727, 728; Carm., III, 5; I, 21, 15; III, 4, 33; IV, 14, 48. But nothing came of these plans. Cf. Strabo, IV, 5, 3, for embassies from Britain. Coins of Dumnobellaunus have been found. Cf. J. Evans, Coins of the Ancient Britons (London, 1864), p. 198, and the following plate 4, Nos. 6-12.

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