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in which lustrum were counted 4,937,000 of the heads of Roman citizens. By new laws passed with
my sponsorship, I restored many traditions of the ancestors, which were falling into disuse in our
age, and myself I handed on precedents of many things to be imitated in later generations.

9. The senate decreed that vows be undertaken for my health by the consuls and priests every fifth
year. In fulfillment of these vows they often celebrated games for my life; several times the four
highest colleges of priests, several times the consuls. Also both privately and as a city all the citizens
unanimously and continuously prayed at all the shrines for my health.

10. By a senate decree my name was included in the Saliar Hymn, and it was sanctified by a law,
both that I would be sacrosanct for ever, and that, as long as I would live, the tribunician power
would be mine. I was unwilling to be high priest in the place of my living colleague; when the
people offered me that priesthood which my father had, I refused it. And I received that
priesthood, after several years, with the death of him who had occupied it since the opportunity of
the civil disturbance, with a multitude flocking together out of all Italy to my election, so many as
had never before been in Rome, when Publius Sulpicius and Gaius Valgius were consuls (12 B.C.E.).

11. The senate consecrated the altar of Fortune the Bringer-back before the temples of Honor and
Virtue at the Campanian gate for my return, on which it ordered the priests and Vestal virgins to
offer yearly sacrifices on the day when I had returned to the city from Syria (when Quintus Lucretius
and Marcus Vinicius were consuls (19 Bc)), and it named that day Augustalia after my cognomen.

12. By the authority of the senate, a part of the praetors and tribunes of the plebs, with consul
Quintus Lucretius and the leading men, was sent to meet me in Campania, which honor had been
decreed for no one but me until that time. When I returned to Rome from Spain and Gaul, having
successfully accomplished matters in those provinces, when Tiberius Nero and Publius Quintilius
were consuls (13 B.C.E.), the senate voted to consecrate the altar of August Peace in the field of
Mars for my return, on which it ordered the magistrates and priests and Vestal virgins to offer
annual sacrifices.

13. Our ancestors wanted Janus Quirinus to be closed when throughout the all the rule of the
Roman people, by land and sea, peace had been secured through victory. Although before my birth
it had been closed twice in all in recorded memory from the founding of the city, the senate voted
three times in my principate that it be closed.

14. When my sons Gaius and Lucius Caesar, whom fortune stole from me as youths, were fourteen,
the senate and Roman people made them consuls-designate on behalf of my honor, so that they
would enter that magistracy after five years, and the senate decreed that on that day when they
were led into the forum they would be included in public councils. Moreover the Roman knights
together named each of them first of the youth and gave them shields and spears.

15. I paid to the Roman plebs, HS 300 per man from my father's will and in my own name gave HS
400 from the spoils of war when I was consul for the fifth time (29 B.C.E.); furthermore I again paid
out a public gift of HS 400 per man, in my tenth consulate (24 B.C.E.), from my own patrimony;
and, when consul for the eleventh time (23 B.C.E.), twelve doles of grain personally bought were
measured out; and in my twelfth year of tribunician power (12-11 B.C.E.) I gave HS 400 per man for
the third time. And these public gifts of mine never reached fewer than 250,000 men. In my