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Res Gestae Divi Augusti
Model of the Temple of Augustus and Roma in Ankara
(Museo nazionale della civiltà romana, Rome)
The translation offered here, made by F.W. Shipley, was copied from LacusCurtius, where you can also find the Greek and Latin text.
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To
the municipal towns I paid money for the lands which
I assigned to soldiers in my own fourth consulship [30 BCE] and
afterwards in the consulship of Marcus Crassus and Gnaeus Lentulus [14 BCE].
The sum which I paid for estates in Italy was about six
hundred million
sesterces, and the amount which I paid for lands in the provinces
was
about two hundred and sixty million.
I was the first and only one to do this of all those who up to
my time
settled colonies of soldiers in Italy or in the provinces. 
And
later, in the consulship of Tiberius Nero and Gnaeus Piso [7 BCE],
likewise
in the consulship of Gaius Antistius and Decimus Laelius [6 BCE], and of
Gaius
Calvisius and Lucius Pasienus [4
BCE], and of Lucius Lentulus and Marcus
Messalla [3 BCE],
and of Lucius Caninius and Quintus Fabricius [2 BCE],
I paid cash
gratuities to the soldiers whom
I settled in their own towns at the expiration of their
service, and
for this purpose I expended four hundred million sesterces as
an act of
grace.Four
times I aided the public treasury with my own money, paying
out in
this manner to those in charge of the treasury one hundred and fifty
million sesterces. And in the consulship of Marcus
Lepidus and Lucius Arruntius [6 CE]
I contributed one hundred and seventy million sesterces out of
my own
patrimony to the military treasury, which was established on my advice
that from it gratuities might be paid to soldiers who had seen twenty
or more years of service.
I built the Curia and the Chalcidicum adjoining it,
the temple of Apollo on the Palatine with its porticoes, the temple of the deified
Julius, the
Lupercal, the portico at
the Circus Flaminius which I allowed to be called Octavia
after the name of him who had constructed an earlier one on the same
site, the state box at the Circus Maximus, the
temples on the Capitol
of Jupiter Feretrius and
Jupiter Tonans, the temple
of Quirinus, the temples of
Minerva, of Juno the Queen, and of Jupiter Libertas, on the Aventine, the temple of the Lares at the
highest point of the Sacra Via, the temple of the
Di Penates on the Velia,
the temple of Youth, and
the temple of the Great Mother on the Palatine.
Coin, commemorating the reconstruction of the Via Flaminia (British Museum).
The Capitol and the theater of Pompey, both works involving great
expense, I rebuilt without any inscription of my own name. I restored
the channels of the aqueducts which in several places were
falling into disrepair through age, and doubled the capacity of the
aqueduct called the Marcia by turning a new spring into its channel. 
I completed
the Julian Forum
and the basilica which was between the temple of Castor and the temple
of Saturn, works begun and far advanced by my father,
and when the same
basilica [Basilica
Julia] was destroyed by fire [12 CE]
I began its reconstruction on an
enlarged site, to be inscribed with the names of my sons, and ordered
that in case I should not live to complete it, it should be
completed
by my heirs. 
In
my sixth consulship [28
BCE], in
accordance with a decree of the Senate,
I rebuilt in
the city eighty-two temples of the gods, omitting none which at that
time stood in need of repair. 
As consul for the seventh time [27 CE] I constructed
the Via Flaminia from the city to Ariminum, and all the
bridges except the Mulvian and the Minucian.>> to part five >>
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