Gestae

After the death of Augustus in 14, a copy of the text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti (the Monumentum Ancyranum ) was inscribed on the interior of the temple's pronaos main in Latin and a Greek translation on an exterior wall of the cella main.

Almost the entire fourth chapter in his publicly released memoirs of achievements known as the Res Gestae was devoted to his military victories and honors.

Alphonsus Ciaconius, Vitae et Res Gestae Pontificum Romanorum et S.R.E. Cardinalium (ab Augusto Olduino recognitae) Tomus II (Roma 1677), 185 where it is alleged that Henry actually struck Teobaldo.

Although criticised as lacking literary merit by his early biographers, he was in fact quite skilled in rhetoric, which significantly has brought the veracity of some of the Res Gestae into question.

Ammianus Marcellinus Res Gestae, 16.12.64–65 Rather than chase the routed enemy across the Rhine, Julian now proceeded to follow the Rhine north, the route he followed the previous year on his way back to Gaul.

Ammianus Marcellinus Res Gestae, 20.4.1–2 The troops proclaimed Julian Augustus in Paris, and this in turn led to a very swift military effort to secure or win the allegiance of others.

Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, 22.12.1–2 Illustration from The Fall of Princes by John Lydgate (which is a translation of De Casibus Virorum Illustribus by Giovanni Boccaccio ) depicting "the skyn of Julyan".

Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, 22.14.1 Julian's ascetic lifestyle was not popular either, since his subjects were accustomed to the idea of an all-powerful Emperor who placed himself well above them.

Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, 22.14.3 As David S. Potter says: They expected a man who was both removed from them by the awesome spectacle of imperial power, and would validate their interests and desires by sharing them from his Olympian height (.

By his own admission, Widukind first wrote several Christian hagiographies before he began his Res gestae saxonicae.

However, Widukind does not mention such an event in his contemporary Res gestae saxonicae sive annalium libri tres or Deeds of the Saxons.

Nevertheless, Augustus closed the Gates of Janus (the Roman ceremony to mark world Peace) three times, Augustus states in Res Gestae 13 that he closed the Gates three times, a fact documented by many other historians (See Gates of Janus ).

Res Gestae 30 On the lower Danube, which was given priority over the upper Danube, this required the annexation of Moesia.

Res Gestae Aug. 31 It appears that a treaty was concluded and apparently proved remarkably effective, as no hostilities with the Bastarnae are recorded in surviving ancient sources until c. 175, some 160 years after Augustus' inscription was carved.

Speaking as an alleged eyewitness, Marcellinus recounts how Theodorus and several others were made to confess their deceit through the use of torture, and cruelly punished.sfn He eventually settled in Rome and began the Res Gestae.

The monk and chronicler Widukind of Corvey in his Res gestae Saxonicae reports that the Danes were subjects of Henry the Fowler.

The Res Gestae Divi Augusti ("Acts of the divine Augustus" AD 14), a self-congratulatory inscription commissioned by Augustus to list his achievements, states that he received an embassy from the Bastarnae seeking a treaty of friendship.