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21. I built the temple of Mars Ultor on private ground and the forum of Augustus from war-spoils. I
build the theater at the temple of Apollo on ground largely bought from private owners, under the
name of Marcus Marcellus my son-in-law. I consecrated gifts from war-spoils in the Capitol and in
the temple of divine Julius, in the temple of Apollo, in the temple of Vesta, and in the temple of
Mars Ultor, which cost me about HS 100,000,000. I sent back gold crowns weighing 35,000 to the
towns and colonies of Italy, which had been contributed for my triumphs, and later, however
many times I was named emperor, I refused gold crowns from the towns and colonies which they
equally kindly decreed, and before they had decreed them.

22. Three times I gave shows of gladiators under my name and five times under the name of my
sons and grandsons; in these shows about 10,000 men fought. Twice I furnished under my name
spectacles of athletes gathered from everywhere, and three times under my grandson's name. I
celebrated games under my name four times, and furthermore in the place of other magistrates
twenty-three times. As master of the college I celebrated the secular games for the college of the
Fifteen, with my colleague Marcus Agrippa, when Gaius Furnius and Gaius Silanus were consuls (17
B.C.E.). Consul for the thirteenth time (2 B.C.E.), I celebrated the first games of Mas, which after
that time thereafter in following years, by a senate decree and a law, the consuls were to celebrate.
Twenty-six times, under my name or that of my sons and grandsons, I gave the people hunts of
African beasts in the circus, in the open, or in the amphitheater; in them about 3,500 beasts were
killed.

23. I gave the people a spectacle of a naval battle, in the place across the Tiber where the grove
of the Caesars is now, with the ground excavated in length 1,800 feet, in width 1,200, in which
thirty beaked ships, biremes or triremes, but many smaller, fought among themselves; in these
ships about 3,000 men fought in addition to the rowers.

24. In the temples of all the cities of the province of Asia, as victor, I replaced the ornaments
which he with whom I fought the war had possessed privately after he despoiled the temples. Silver
statues of me-on foot, on horseback, and standing in a chariot-were erected in about eighty
cities, which I myself removed, and from the money I placed gold in offerings in the temple of
Apollo under my name and of those who paid the honor of the statues to me.

25. I restored peace to the sea from pirates. In that slave war I handed over to their masters for
the infliction of punishments about 30,000 captured, who had fled their masters and taken up arms
against the state. All Italy swore allegiance to me voluntarily, and demanded me as leader of the
war which I won at Actium; the provinces of Gaul, Spain, Africa, Sicily, and Sardinia swore the
same allegiance. And those who then fought under my standard were more than 700 senators,
among whom 83 were made consuls either before or after, up to the day this was written, and
about 170 were made priests.

26. I extended the borders of all the provinces of the Roman people which neighbored nations
not subject to our rule. I restored peace to the provinces of Gaul and Spain, likewise Germany,
which includes the ocean from Cadiz to the mouth of the river Elbe. I brought peace to the Alps
from the region which i near the Adriatic Sea to the Tuscan, with no unjust war waged against any
nation. I sailed my ships on the ocean from the mouth of the Rhine to the east region up to the
borders of the Cimbri, where no Roman had gone before that time by land or sea, and the Cimbri
and the Charydes and the Semnones and the other Germans of the same territory sought by envoys