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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.
For ten years in succession I was one of the triumvirs for organizing the commonwealth.39 Up to that day on which I write these words I have been princeps of the senate through forty years.40 I have been pontifex maximus,41 augur,42 a member of the quindecemviral college of the sacred rites,43 of the septemviral college of the banquets,44 an Arval Brother,45 a member of the Titian sodality,46 and a fetial.47