Res Gestae Divi Augusti
Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Published: June 1999
Language: lat
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780865164550
Subjects: Classical languages; European history: BCE to c 500 CE; Language learning: specific skills; Latin; Latin Language; Foreign Language Study; History - General History; Language; Ancient Rome; Ancient - Rome
First sentence: WHEN Augustus died on 19 August, AD 14, he left behind him four documents, entrusted to the Vestal Virgins for sage keeping; these documents as listed by Suetonius (Aug. 101, 4) were: his will; instructions for his funeral; 'a catalogue of his achievements which he wished to be inscribed on bronze tablets and set up in front of his mausoleum'; and a summary of the military and financial state of the whole empire.