While I was consul for the thirteenth time the senate and the equestrian order and the entire Roman people gave me the title of father of the fatherland, and decreed that it should be inscribed upon the vestibule of my house and in the Curia, and in the Augustan Forum beneath the quadriga which had been, by decree of the senate, set up in my honor.[156] When I wrote these words I was in my seventy-sixth year.[157]
Supplement.
c. 1.
The sum of the money which he gave in to the treasury or to the Roman people, or to discharged soldiers, was six hundred million denarii.[158]
c. 2.
He constructed new works as follows: the temples of Mars, of Jupiter the Thunderer and the Vanquisher, of Apollo, of the divine Julius, of Quirinus, of Minerva, of Juno Regina, of Jupiter Libertas, of the Lares, of the divine Penates, of Youth, and of the Mother of the gods, the Lupercal, the Pulvinar in the Circus, the Curia with the Chalcidicum, the Augustan Forum, the Basilica Julia, the Theatre of Marcellus, the Portico on the Palatine, the Portico in the Flaminian Circus, the grove of the Cæsars beyond the Tiber.[159]
c. 3.
He restored the Capitol, and sacred structures to the number of eighty-two, the Theatre of Pompey, the aqueducts, the Flaminian Way.[160]
c. 4.
His expenses for theatrical representations, for gladiatorial and athletic exhibitions, for chases and the naval combat,[161] also for gifts in money to the colonies and cities of Italy,[162] to provincial cities suffering from earthquake or conflagrations,[163] and to individual friends and to senators, whose property he raised to the standard,[164] were innumerable.