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34. In my sixth and seventh consulates (28-27 B.C.E.), after putting out the civil war, having
obtained all things by universal consent, I handed over the state from my power to the dominion
of the senate and Roman people. And for this merit of mine, by a senate decree, I was called
Augustus and the doors of my temple were publicly clothed with laurel and a civic crown was
fixed over my door and a gold shield placed in the Julian senate-house, and the inscription of that
shield testified to the virtue, mercy, justice, and piety, for which the senate and Roman people gave
it to me. After that time, I exceeded all in influence, but I had no greater power than the others
who were colleagues with me in each magistracy.

35. When I administered my thirteenth consulate (2 B.C.E.), the senate and Equestrian order and
Roman people all called me father of the country, and voted that the same be inscribed in the
vestibule of my temple, in the Julian senate-house, and in the forum of Augustus under the chariot
which had been placed there for me by a decision of the senate. When I wrote this I was seventy-
six years old.

Appendix -Written after Augustus' death.
1. All the expenditures which he gave either into the treasury or to the Roman plebs or to
discharged soldiers: HS 2,400,000,000.
2. The works he built: the temples of Mars, of Jupiter Subduer and Thunderer, of Apollo, of divine
Julius, of Minerva, of Queen Juno, of Jupiter Liberator, of the Lares, of the gods of the Penates, of
Youth, and of the Great Mother, the Lupercal, the state box at the circus, the senate-house with
the Chalcidicum, the forum of Augustus, the Julian basilica, the theater of Marcellus, the Octavian
portico, and the grove of the Caesars across the Tiber.

3. He rebuilt the Capitol and holy temples numbering eighty-two, the theater of Pompey,
waterways, and the Flaminian road.

4.The sum expended on theatrical spectacles and gladatorial games and athletes and hunts and
mock naval battles and money given to colonies, cities, and towns destroyed by earthquake and
fire or per man to friends and senators, whom he raised to the senate rating: innumerable.