57A Flashcards
Ita bellis per totum orbem confectis Octavianus Augustus Romam rediit, duo-decimo anno quam consul fuerat.
Thus, with wars throughout the whole world having been settled, Octavian Augustus returned to Rome, in the twelfth year after he had been consul.
Ex eo rem publicam per quadraginta et quattuor annos solus obtinuit.
From that time he, alone, possessed the Republic through forty four years.
Ante enim duodecim annis cum Antonio et Lepido tenuerat.
Before, for twelve years he had held with Antonius and Lepidus for twelve years.
Ita ab initio principatus eius usque ad finem quinquaginta ex sex anni fuerunt.
Thus, from the beginning of his principate all the way to the end was fifty six years.
Obiit autem septuagesimo sexto anno morte communi in oppido Campaniae Atella.
However, he died in the seventy sixth year by a common death in the town of Atella, Campania.
Romae in campo Martio sepultus est, vir qui non immerito ex maxima parte deo similis est putatus.
He was buried in Rome in the Camp Martius, a man who was not undeservedly was thought of the greatest part to be similar to a god.
Neque enim facile ullus eo aut in bellis felicior fuit aut in pace moderatior.
For easily there was not any person more lucky in war nor more moderate in peace than he.
Quadraginta et quattuor annis, quibus solus gessit imperium, civilissime vixit, in cuncutos liberalissimus, in amicos fidissimus, quos tantis evexit honoribus ut paene aequaret fastigio suo.
Within forty four years, in which he held power alone, he lived civilly, he was very generous to all, he was very loyal to his friends, whom he raised up with such great honors that he almost made them equal to his own greatness.
Nullo tempore ante eum magis res Romana floruit.
At no time before him did Romans’ condition flourish more greatly.
Nam exceptis civilibus bellis, in quibus invictus fuit, Romano adiecit imperio Aegyptum, Cantabriam, Dalmatiam saepe ante victam sed penitus tum subactam, Pannoniam, Aquitanian, Illyricum, Raetiam, Vindelicos et Salassos in Alpibus, omnes Ponti maritimas civitates, in his nobilissimas Bosporum et Panticapaeum.
For with the civil wars having been waged, in which he was undefeated, he added to the Roman empire Egypt, Cantabria, Dalmatia, often having been conquered before but at that time completely subdued, Pannonia, Aquitania, Illyricum, Raetia, the Vindelicos and the Salassos in the Alps, all the Bosporus and Panticapeaum.
Vicit autem multis proeliis Dacos.
Moreover he conquered the Dacians in many battles.
