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