... to it in Res Gestae Divi Augusti- self propaganda written by Augustus. RGDA is a very useful source for looking at Augusts' achievements as viewed by him but it must be taken into account that it is self propaganda and therefore subject to contain bias. In RGDA 26-33 he says that he extended the territory of all those provinces of the Roman people "on whose borders lay peoples not subject to our government." He also extended it to the Gallic and Spanish provinces as well as to Germany, throughout the area bordering on the Ocean from "Cadiz to the mouth of the Elbe" , though he said it was bringing peace to them. This was a massive and dramatic extension. Especially for someone who less than thirty years after the last of these was advising that the empire should not be "extended beyond its present frontiers," (Tacitus). It seems that ...

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