Monumentum Ancyranum

Note 91 — 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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The Pulvinar was the place of honor from which the imperial family witnessed the games. Cf. Suet. Aug. 45; Claud. 4. This restoration followed the burning of the Circus Maximus in 723. Cf. Dio, L, 10.

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