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eighteenth year of tribunician power, as consul for the twelfth time (5 B.C.E.), I gave to 320,000
plebs of the city HS 240 per man. And, when consul the fifth time (29 B.C.E.), I gave from my war-
spoils to colonies of my soldiers each HS 1000 per man; about 120,000 men i the colonies received
this triumphal public gift. Consul for the thirteenth time (2 B.C.E.), I gave HS 240 to the plebs who
then received the public grain; they were a few more than 200,000.

16. I paid the towns money for the fields which I had assigned to soldiers in my fourth consulate
(30 B.C.E.) and then when Marcus Crassus and Gnaeus Lentulus Augur were consuls (14 B.C.E.); the
sum was about HS 600,000,000 which I paid out for Italian estates, and about HS 260,000,000
which I paid for provincial fields. I was first and alone who did this among all who founded military
colonies in Italy or the provinces according to the memory of my age. And afterwards, when
Tiberius Nero and Gnaeus Piso were consuls (7 B.C.E.), and likewise when Gaius Antistius and
Decius Laelius were consuls (6 B.C.E.), and when Gaius Calvisius and Lucius Passienus were consuls
(4 B.C.E.), and when Lucius Lentulus and Marcus Messalla were consuls (3 B.C.E.), and when Lucius
Caninius and Quintus Fabricius were consuls (2 B.C.E.), I paid out rewards in cash to the soldiers
whom I had led into their towns when their service was completed, and in this venture I spent
about HS 400,000,000.

17. Four times I helped the senatorial treasury with my money, so that I offered HS 150,000,000 to
those who were in charge of the treasury. And when Marcus Lepidus and Luciu Arruntius were
consuls (6 A.C.E.), I offered HS 170,000,000 from my patrimony to the military treasury, which
was founded by my advice and from which rewards were given to soldiers who had served
twenty or more times.

18. From that year when Gnaeus and Publius Lentulus were consuls (18 Bc), when the taxes fell
short, I gave out contributions of grain and money from my granary and patrimony, sometimes to
100,000 men, sometimes to many more.

19. I built the senate-house and the Chalcidicum which adjoins it and the temple of Apollo on the
Palatine with porticos, the temple of divine Julius, the Lupercal, the portico at the Flaminian circus,
which I allowed to be called by the name Octavian, after he who had earlier built in the same place,
the state box at the great circus, the temple on the Capitoline of Jupiter Subduer and Jupiter
Thunderer, the temple of Quirinus, the temples of Minerva and Queen Juno and Jupiter Liberator
on the Aventine, the temple of the Lares at the top of the holy street, the temple of the gods of the
Penates on the Velian, the temple of Youth, and the temple of the Great Mother on the Palatine.

20. I rebuilt the Capitol and the theater of Pompey, each work at enormous cost, without any
inscription of my name. I rebuilt aqueducts in many places that had decayed with age, and I
doubled the capacity of the Marcian aqueduct by sending a new spring into its channel. I
completed the Forum of Julius and the basilic which he built between the temple of Castor and the
temple of Saturn, works begun and almost finished by my father. When the same basilica was
burned with fire I expanded its grounds and I began it under an inscription of the name of my sons,
and, if I should not complete it alive, I ordered it to be completed by my heirs. Consul for the sixth
time (28 B.C.E.), I rebuilt eighty-two temples of the gods in the city by the authority of the senate,
omitting nothing which ought to have been rebuilt at that time. Consul for the seventh time (27
B.C.E.), I rebuilt the Flaminian road from the city to Ariminum and all the bridges except the
Mulvian and Minucian.