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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.
His expenses for theatrical representations, for gladiatorial and athletic exhibitions, for chases and the naval combat,161 also for gifts in money to the colonies and cities of Italy,162 to provincial cities suffering from earthquake or conflagrations,163 and to individual friends and to senators, whose property he raised to the standard,164 were innumerable.