In short, he substitutes to these, as a third arrangement, his relatives; that is to say, his grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and they defaulting, his friends, amicos complures.
He leaves “to the Roman people,” quadringentos sestertium.
Item: to the Latin tribes, tricies quinquies sestertium.
Item: to the soldiers of his body-guards, per head, i.e. to each pretorian soldier, millia nummorum.
Item: to those of the municipal guard, the urban cohorts, quingenos nummos.
Item: to the soldiers of the legion, trecentos nummos.
But he orders all these military legacies to be paid at once, having taken the precaution to put by the sums required for this object.
As to the other legacies to different private individuals, and of which the majority of the amounts exceeded twenty sesterces, he allows a period of a year after his death for the payment of them, and he excuses himself for their smallness on the plea of the moderate amount of his fortune.
“I leave, in all, to my heirs, no more than one hundred and fifty million sesterces, although I have received by testamentary donations more than five milliards of sesterces, but I have employed the whole of this in the service of the State, as well as my two paternal patrimonies (that of Caïus Octavius, his own father, and that of Julius Cæsar, his adoptive father), and my other family inheritances.”
By another clause of his testament Augustus leaves a small legacy to his daughter Julia, but he does not recall her from exile; he even forbids that her ashes, and those of the second Julia, his granddaughter, as debauched as her mother, should be placed in the tomb of the Cæsars.