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AUGUSTUS' FINANCES
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PERSONAL EXPENDITURES
( Res Gestae Divi Augusti ) |
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29 B.C. |
400 HS to ca. 250,000+ plebs |
RGDA 15 |
100,000,000 HS |
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29 |
to colonized troops |
RGDA 15 |
120,000,000 |
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29 |
land in Italy for soldiers |
RGDA 16 |
600,000,000 |
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29 |
land in the provinces for soldiers |
RGDA 16 |
100,000,000 |
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29/28 |
repairs of 82 temples and new ones |
RGDA 19-20 |
(say) ca. 60,000,000 |
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29 |
Victory games |
. |
(say) ca. 20,000,000 |
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24
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400 HS to each of 250,000+ plebs |
RGDA 15 |
100,000,000+ |
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23 |
12 grain distributions |
RGDA 15 |
60,000,000 |
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5 |
240 HS to 320,000+ plebs |
RGDA 15 |
76,800,000+ |
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2 |
240 HS to 200,000 plebs |
RGDA 15 |
48,000,000+ |
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14 |
purchase of land in the provinces |
RGDA 16 |
ca. 160,000,000 |
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7–2 |
grants to discharged soldiers |
RGDA 16 |
400,000,000 |
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? |
gifts to the Aerarium on four occasions |
RGDA 17 |
150,000,000 |
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6 A.D. |
endowment of the Aerarium Militare |
RGDA 17 |
170,000,000 |
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TOTAL expenditures claimed explicitly by Augustus
(certainly major expenditures only) |
. |
1,164,800,000++ |
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Egyptian manubiae (Augustus' share, estimated) |
1,000,000,000 HS |
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Legacies from testaments (Suetonius Divus Augustus 101. 3) |
1,400,000,000 |
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Patrimony (from Julius Caesar and Cn. Octavius) |
perhaps 100,000,000 |
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Spanish, Gallic and Balkan manubiae |
? ? ? |
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Income from imperial property (est.) |
5,000,000 |
| A by-no-means-complete TOTAL of Augustus' income |
2,500,000,000 |
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To his heirs |
150,000,000 HS |
To soldiers and citizens
(Suetonius Aug. 101. 2; Dio 56. 32.2) |
90,000,000 |
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TOTAL |
240,000,000 HS |
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Gladiatorial shows |
8 times |
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Athletic games |
3 |
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Ordinary ludi |
27 |
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Ludi Saeculares (17 B.C.) |
1 |
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Ludi Martiales (2 B.C.) |
1 |
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Venationes (hunts) |
26 |
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naumachia, with 3,000 fighters (2 B.C.), for which Augustus built an aqueduct and a lake to stage the show |
1 |
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SOURCE: Tenney Frank, Economic Survey of Ancient Rome V (1940) pp. 12-17.
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© 09/22/2001 |
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