d for twenty years or more, I transferred to it from my own patrimony 170,000,000 sesterces." – Res Gestae.
             Being a highly intelligent man, Augustus knew that the Res Gestae was crucial to his image as Princeps. The Res Gestae was somewhat over exaggerated in Augustus' achievements and contributions, but this was purposely done in order for his image as Princeps to be that of success, power and high influence over Rome. "I made the sea peaceful and freed it of pirates. In that war I captured about 30,000 slaves who had escaped from their masters and taken up arms against the republic, and I handed them over to their masters for punishment. The whole of Italy of its own free will swore allegiance to me and demanded me as the leader in
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