Res Gestae 12 inscribed in Greek shown above (tablet VI, lines 15-24) and below (tablet VII, lines 1-4). The Greek inscription is far better preserved than the Latin inscription and supplies valuable information for filling in the holes in our Latin text.
[12] By decree of the Senate, several of the praetors and the tribunes of the people together with the consul Quintus Lucretius and the leading men were sent into Campania to meet me, an honor which has been decreed to no one other than me until the present time. In the consulship of Tiberius Nero and Publius Quintilius, when I returned to Rome from Spain and Gaul, after military affairs in those provinces were administered successfully, the Senate resolved that an altar of Augustan Peace should be consecrated near the Campus Martius on behalf of my return, upon which it instructed the magistrates and the priests and the Vestal Virgins to perform an annual sacrifice.
The Auctores would like to extend special thanks to Peter White, Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago, for reviewing the Latin translation and for offering valuable suggestions.
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