Monumentum Ancyranum: The Deeds of Augustus

Chapter 21: c. 6.

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The text presents a first-person funerary inscription offering an official summary of a ruler's public life, listing offices held, military and diplomatic actions, legislative measures, public benefactions, and building projects. This edition reproduces the original Latin text alongside a Greek translation and an English rendering, and it includes a historical introduction recounting the inscription's discovery and transmission. Philological notes, textual variants, and a bibliography accompany the texts, with the Greek often supplying readings where the Latin is damaged and the commentary explaining emendations and interpretive choices for students and scholars.

c. 6.

During the consulship of Marcus Vinucius and Quintus Lucretius, and afterwards in that of Publius and Cnaeus Lentulus, and a third time in that of Paullus Fabius Maximus and Quintus Tubero, by the consent of the senate and the Roman people I was voted the sole charge of the laws and of morals, with the fullest power;35 but I accepted the proffer of no office which was contrary to the customs of the country.36 The measures of which the senate at that time wished me to take charge, I accomplished in virtue of my possession of the tribunitial power.37 In this office I five times associated with myself a colleague, with the consent of the senate.38