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Excerpt from Latin Epigraphy: An Introduction to the Study of Latin Inscriptions
Roman Names, Roman Officials, and Roman Emperors are reserved for the first three Appendices. The addition of the 'last of these is mainly due to the fact that a knowledge of the peculiar methods used for recording the 'regnal' years of Roman emperors is absolutely necessary to enable us to determine the date of a very large number of imperial inscriptions.
Next follows an, Appendix consisting of Six Historical 1mm} tions. This includes the whole of the available Latin text of the Res gestae by far the most important of the historical inscriptions of the early Roman empire - an authoritative docu ment written by Augustus himself near the close of his life, in the form of a supremely dignified retrospect of his public career. For the purpose of forming a revised recension of the text, I have naturally begun with Mommsen's monumental edition of 1883, which was mainly founded on the copy Of this great inscription which is still preserved On the walls of a Roman temple at Ancyra in Galatia, now well known as Angora, in north-central Asia Minor; I have also examined, at first-hand, almost the whole of the widely scattered literature of this subject, which has appeared in the thirty years from 1883 to 1913; and I have ended with the' latest and most welcome evidence supplied by the diminutive fragments Of the Latin text discovered in June, 1914, by Sir W. M. Ramsay at Antioch in Pisidia. This Appendix also includes an extract from one of the harangues which Hadrian, the greatest traveller of all the Roman emperors, addressed to one of his armies in Northern Africa; and the preamble (and a specimen of one Of the schedules) of the celebrated Edict of Diocletian, which aimed at fixing a maximum price for provisions and, indeed, for all articles Of com merce, as well as a maximum rate of wages.
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