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Power at 19 with armies. Propraetorian power, imperium, consul when Pansa and Hirtius died.

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Exiled conspirators and then defeated them twice in battle.

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War on land and sea and mercifull towards citizens, 300,000 of 500,000 veterans settled and captured 600 large ships.

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2 ovations, 3 curule triumphs and saluted as imperator 31 times, declined further triumphs. Thanksgivings to gods decreed by senate 55 times, 890 days of thanksgiving, 9 kinga or princes captured and been consul 13 times, in 37th year of tribunician power.

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Dictatorship offered by people and senate refused, controlled corn well but declined dictatorship again.

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Supervisor of morals and laws three times, but took no more power than was consistent with the customs of his ancestors. Asked for colleague 5 times.

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Triumvir for 10 years, princeps senate for 40 years, also: pontifex maximus, augur, quindecimvir sacris faciundis, septemvir epulonum, frater arvalis, sodalist titius, fetialis.

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Increased number of patricians and revised role of senate 3 times, census and lustrum in which 4,063,000 citizens were registered. Performed a second lustrum with Tiberius when 4,937,000 citizens were registered and made traditional laws.

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Vows every 5 years for good health, games to celebrate lifetime, and citizens giving prayers at pulvinaria for his health.

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Name in hyme of the Salii and laws to be tribune for life, pontifex maximus after death of last one.

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Annual sacrifices by Vestal virgins and priests to commemorate return to Syria and senate consecrated the altar of Fortuna Redux before the temples of Honour and Virtue at the Porta Capena, day named the Augustalia.

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Praetors and tribunes to Campania with consul Quintus Lucretius, arranged affairs in Spain and Gaul, and ara pacis and annual sacrifices.

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Gates of Janus Quirinus shut 3 times, only shut 2 times ever before.

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Gaius and Lucius consuls at 14 to begin in 5 years and take part in councils of state, hailed as sons of princeps and given silver spears

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Gave 300 sesterces to each pleb from Caesars will and 400 each from war booty, 400 from own patrimony 2 times, and distributed free grain, largesse never to less than 250,000 people. Gave 240 sesterces each to 320,000 urban plebs, gave 1000 from war booty to colonist soldiers (around 1200 men), and gave 60 denarii to just over 200,000 plebs who were in receipt of public grain.

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He paid cash to the towns for the lands given to veterans amounting to about 600,000,000 sesterces paid for lands in Italy, and about 260,000,000 for provincial lands, and first to do it for military colonies. Later, in 7, 6, 4, 3 and 2BC he paid monetary rewards to soldiers settled in their home towns after completion of their service, and expended about 400,000,000 sesterces.

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Assisted treasury with own money 4 times, gave administration 150,000 sesterces and founded military treasury.

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Gave out grain and money when taxes didn't suffice, sometimes to 100,000 people, sometimes more.

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Built a senate house and a Chalcidicum, temples also built to: Apollo, Julius, Jupiter Feretrius, Jupiter the Thunderer, the Quirinus, Minerva, Queen Juno, Jupiter Libertas, the Lares, the Di Penates, Youth and the Great Mother, and also built Lupercals, and porticos.

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Restored: the Capitol and the theatre of Pompey, the channels of the aqueducts, and brought water from a new spring into the aqueduct doubling the supply. He completed the Forum Julium and a basilica and began to rebuild it when it was destroyed by fire and gave orders that it should be completed by my heirs. In 28 BC he restored eighty-two temples and 27 BC he restored the Via Flaminia from the city as far as Rimini, together with all bridges except the Mulvian and the Minucian.

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He built the temple of Mars the Avenger and the Forum Augustum on private ground from the proceeds of booty. He built the theatre adjacent to the temple of Apollo on land bought mostly from private owners. From booty he dedicated gifts in the Capitol and in the temples of the divine Julius, of Apollo, of Vesta and of Mars the Avenger ; and cost about 100,000,000 sesterces. In 28 BC he remitted 55,000 lb. of aurum coronarium and refused the aurum coronarium which the municipia and colonies continued to vote.

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Gave 3 gladiatorial games in his name and 5 in names of sons or grandsons, gave many other shows: athletes 2 times in his name and once in his grandson's and shows in his own name 4 times and in the names of other magistrates 23 times, and best hunts in own name and in names of sons and grandsons.

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Tiber naval battle

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Replaced ornaments of Asia in temples, also gave his own statues and renovated others.

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Freed the sea of pirates, captured 30,000 escaped slaves, the whole of Italy, Gallic provinces, Spanish provinces, Africa, Sicily and Sardinia swore allegiance and demanded him as leader for war in Actium. More than 700 senators served under standards at that time; 83 had been or would be consuls and 170 appointed priests.

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He extended the territory and brought peace to the Gallic and Spanish provinces as well as to Germany, throughout the area bordering on the Ocean from Cadiz to the mouth of the Elbe. He pacified the Alps from the district nearest the Adriatic to the Tuscan sea. His fleet sailed through the ocean eastwards from the mouth of the Rhine to the territory of the Cimbri, and the Cimbri, Charydes, Semnones and other German peoples of that region sent ambassadors and sought friendship. Two armies were led into Ethiopia and Arabia Felix.

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He added Egypt to the empire and Greater Armenia was handed over to Tigranes, son of King Artavasdes. Later subdued them by Gaius and handed them over to be ruled by King Ariobarzanes, son of the King of the Medes, and then to his son Artavasdes. When he was killed, he sent Tigranes, a scion of the royal Armenian house. He recovered all the provinces beyond the Adriatic sea towards the east, together with Cyrene. He had recovered Sicily and Sardinia which had been seized in the slave war.

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Founded colonies of soldiers in Africa, Sicily, Macedonia, both Spanish provinces, Achaea, Asia, Syria, Gallia Narbonensis and Pisidia and founded 28 other colonies.

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revenge and military power. Recovered several standards lost in Spain, Gaul, and the Dalmations and compelled Parthians to return spoils and standards of 3 Roman armies. Deposited standards in shrine to Mars the avenger.

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The Pannonian peoples were conquered, and extended the frontier of Illyricum to the banks of the Danube. When an army of Dacians crossed the Danube, it was defeated, and later his army crossed the Danube and compelled the Dacian peoples to submit.

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Embassies from kings in India were frequently sent and the Bastarnae, Scythians and the kings of the Sarmatians on either side of the river Don, and the kings of the Albanians and the Iberians and the Medes sent embassies to seek friendship.

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Kings who sought refuge: Parthia, Medes, Adiabeni, the Britons, the Sugambri, the Marcomanni and Suebi. King of Parthia, sent all his sons and grandsons to Italy for friendship by pledging his children and all had friendly relations with the Roman people.

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Parthians and Medians sent nobility ambassadors

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Transferred power after control after civil wars, named Augustus. Given bay leaves for door posts, civic crown fixed to door and golden shield in Curia Julia on account of his clemency, justice, piety and courage.

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Parens Patriae inscribed outside house, in the Curia Julia and below the chariot in the Forum of Augustus.

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