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3. I often waged war, civil and foreign, on the earth and sea, in the whole wide world, and as victor I
spared all the citizens who sought pardon. As for foreign nations, those which I was able to safely
forgive, I preferred to preserve than to destroy. About five hundred thousand Roman citizens were
sworn to me. I led something more than three hundred thousand of them into colonies and I
returned them to their cities, after their stipend had been earned, and I assigned all of them fields
or gave them money for their military service. I captured six hundred ships in addition to those
smaller than triremes.

4. Twice I triumphed with an ovation, and three times I enjoyed a curule triumph and twenty one
times I was named emperor. When the senate decreed more triumphs for me, I sat out from all of
them. I placed the laurel from the fasces in the Capitol, when the vows which I pronounced in each
war had been fulfilled. On account of the things successfully done by me and through my officers,
under my auspices, on earth and sea, the senate decreed fifty-five times that there be sacrifices to
the immortal gods. Moreover there were 890 days on which the senate decreed there would be
sacrifices. In my triumphs kings and nine children of kings were led before my chariot. I had been
consul thirteen times, when I wrote this, and I was in the thirty-seventh year of tribunician power
(14 A.C.E.).

5. When the dictatorship was offered to me, both in my presence and my absence, by the people
and senate, when Marcus Marcellus and Lucius Arruntius were consuls (22 B.C.E.), I did not accept
it. I did not evade the curatorship of grain in the height of the food shortage, which I so arranged
that within a few days I freed the entire city from the present fear and danger by my own expense
and administration. When the annual and perpetual consulate was then again offered to me, I
did not accept it.

6. When Marcus Vinicius and Quintus Lucretius were consuls (19 B.C.E.), then again when Publius
Lentulus and Gnaeus Lentulus were (18 B.C.E.), and third when Paullus Fabius Maximus and Quintus
Tubero were (11 B.C.E.), although the senate and Roman people consented that I alone be made
curator of the laws and customs with the highest power, I received no magistracy offered
contrary to the customs of the ancestors. What the senate then wanted to accomplish through
me, I did through tribunician power, and five times on my own accord I both requested and
received from the senate a colleague in such power.

7. I was triumvir for the settling of the state for ten continuous years. I was first of the senate up to
that day on which I wrote this, for forty years. I was high priest, augur, one of the Fifteen for the
performance of rites, one of the Seven of the sacred feasts, brother of Arvis, fellow of Titus, and
Fetial.

8. When I was consul the fifth time (29 B.C.E.), I increased the number of patricians by order of the
people and senate. I read the roll of the senate three times, and in my sixth consulate (28 B.C.E.) I
made a census of the people with Marcus Agrippa as my colleague. I conducted
a lustrum, after a forty-one year gap, in which lustrum were counted 4,063,000 heads of Roman
citizens. Then again, with consular imperium I conducted a lustrum alone when Gaius Censorinus
and Gaius Asinius were consuls (8 B.C.E.), in which lustrum were counted 4,233,000 heads of
Roman citizens. And the third time, with consular imperium, I conducted a lustrum with my son
Tiberius Caesar as colleague, when Sextus Pompeius and Sextus Appuleius were consuls (14 A.C.E.),