Augustus 5.0 / 5 based on 1 rating ? Classical CivilizationRes Gestae quotesA2/A-levelAQA Created by: emilythomas24Created on: 02-06-15 15:15 Res Gestae - restoring the republic "I restored liberty to the public" 1 of 35 Res Gestae - powers and titles "gave me imperium" - 44BC 2 of 35 Res Gestae - foreign policy "when they raged war upon the republic, i twice defeated them in battle" - Brutus and Cassus 3 of 35 Res Gestae - provinces "the foreign nations...I preferred to save rather than destory" 4 of 35 Res Gestae - army "Roman citizens who bound themseves to me by military oath was about 500,000" 5 of 35 Res Gestae - powers and titles "twice I triumphed on ovation, thrice I celebrated curule triumphs" 6 of 35 Res Gestae - powers and titles "saluted as imperator 21 times" 7 of 35 Res Gestae - powers and titles "I had been consul 13 times" 8 of 35 Res Gestae - powers and titles "the dictatorship I did not accept" 9 of 35 Res Gestae - Plebs "I freed the entire people at my own expense" - grain shortage 10 of 35 Res Gestae - restoration of the republic "the consulship...I did not accept" 11 of 35 Res Gestae - powers and titles "I have been Princeps Senatus for 40 years" - by 14AD 12 of 35 Res Gestae - religion "Ponitfex maximus, augur...a fetial priest" - list of religious titlea 13 of 35 Res Gestae - senate "I increased the number of patricians" 14 of 35 Res Gestae - senate "Marcus Agrippa was my colleague" 15 of 35 Res Gestae - Plebs "games were often held in my lifetime" 16 of 35 Res Gestae - religion "I declined to be made the pontifex maximus in succession to a colleague still living" - Lepidus 17 of 35 Res Gestae - Ara Pacis "on my retrun from Spain and Gaul...the Senate voted in honour of my return, the consecration of an altar to Pax Augusta" - 13BC 18 of 35 Res Gestae - peace in the empire "Janus Quirinus...the Senate ordered to be closed thrice while I was Princeps" 19 of 35 Res Gestae - succession "my sons, Gauis and Lucius Caesar..the senate ad the people to do me honour, made consuls dedignate" 20 of 35 Res Gestae - Plebs "to the Roman Plebs, I paid out 300 sesterces per man in accordance with the will of my father" - 44BC 21 of 35 Res Gestae - plebs "12 distributions of food from grain bought at my own expense" 22 of 35 Res Gestae - army/plebs and equestrians "I paid for estates in Italy...I was the first and only one to do this of all those who up to my time settled colonies of soldiers" 23 of 35 Res Gestae - plebs "four times I aided the public treasury with my own money" 24 of 35 Res Gestae - plebs "I furnushed from my own purse and my own patrimony tickets for grain" 25 of 35 Res Gestae - building programme "The Capitol and theatre of Pompey, both works involving great expense, I rebuilt" 26 of 35 Res Gestae - building programme "I restored the channels of aqueducts" 27 of 35 Res Gestae - building programme "I restored 82 temples" 28 of 35 Res Gestae - plebs "In my own name, or that of my sons or gandsons, on 26 occasions, I gave to the people the circus" 29 of 35 Res Gestae - frugality "silver statues of me...were erected in the city to the number of about 80; these I myself removed" 30 of 35 Res Gestae - provinces "the provinces of the Gauls, the Spains and Germany...I reduced to a state of peace" 31 of 35 Res Gestae - frontiers "I extended the boundaries of all the provinces which were bordered by races" 32 of 35 Res Gestae - provinces "Egypt I added to the Roman empire" - 31BC 33 of 35 Res Gestae - provinces "I settled colonies of soldiers in Africa, Sicily and Macedonia" 34 of 35 Res Gestae - provinvces "the tribes of Pannonia...having been subdued by Tiberius Nero" 35 of 35
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