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Monumentum Ancyranum: The Deeds of Augustus

Chapter 29: c. 14.
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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. 14.

My sons, the Cæsars Gaius and Lucius, whom fortune snatched from me in their youth,65 the senate and Roman people, in order to do me honor, designated as consuls in the fifteenth year of each, with the intention that they should enter upon that magistracy after five years.66 And the senate decreed that from the day in which they were introduced into the forum they should share in the public counsels.67 Moreover the whole body of the Roman knights gave them the title, principes of the youth, and gave to each a silver buckler and spear.68