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This long obituary notice was composed by Augustus himself and kept up to date to the year of his death (§4). He ordered it to be engraved on two bronze plaques outside his mausoleum. These have perished, but copies of the Latin original or of the official Greek translation were engraved on temples at Ancyra, Apollonia, and Antioch of Pisidia, and from these it is possible to reconstitute the entire text.
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Jones, A.H.M. (1970). The Foundation of the Principate. In: Jones, A.H.M. (eds) A History of Rome through the Fifth Century. The Documentary History of Western Civilization. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00491-1_2
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