Augustus

26. Omnium próv(inciarum populi Romani), quibus finitimae fuerunt || gentés quae n(on parerent imperio nos)tro, fines auxi. Gallias et Hispaniás próvinciá(s et Germaniam qua inclu)dit Óceanus a Gádibus ad ósti|um Albis flúm(inis pacavi. Alpes a re)gióne eá, quae proxima est Ha|driánó mari, (ad Tuscum pacari fec)i. nullí gentí bello per iniúriam | inláto. % Cla(ssis mea per Oceanum) ab óstio Rhéni ad sólis orientis re||gionem usque ad fi(nes Cimbroru]m navigavit, (%) quó neque terra neque | mari quisquam Romanus ante id tempus adít, % Cimbrique et Charydes | et Semnones et eiusdem tractús alií Germánórum popu(l)i per legátós amici|tiam meam et populi Románi petierunt. % Meo iussú et auspicio ducti sunt | (duo) exercitús eódem fere tempore in Aethiopiam et in Ara)biam, quae appel||(latur) eudaemón, (maxim)aeque hos(t)ium gentís utr(iu)sque cop(iae) | caesae sunt in acie et (c)om(plur)a oppida capta. In Aethiopiam usque ad oppi|dum Nabata pervent(um) est, cuí proxima est Meroé. In Arabiam usque | ín fínés Sabaeorum pro(cess)it exerc(it)us ad oppidum Mariba. % |

26. I extended the boundaries of all the provinces which were bordered by races not yet subject to our empire. The provinces of the Gauls, the Spains, and Germany, bounded by the ocean from Gades to the mouth of the Elbe, I reduced to a state of peace. The Alps, from the region which lies nearest to the Adriatic as far as the Tuscan Sea, I brought to a state of peace without waging on any tribe an unjust war. My fleet sailed from the mouth of the Rhine eastward as far as the lands of the Cimbri to which, up to that time, no Roman had ever penetrated either by land or by sea, and the Cimbri and Charydes and Semnones and other peoples of the Germans of that same region through their envoys sought my friendship and that of the Roman people. On my order and under my auspices two armies were led, at almost the same time, into Ethiopia and into Arabia which is called the "Happy," and very large forces of the enemy of both races were cut to pieces in battle and many towns were captured. Ethiopia was penetrated as far as the town of Nabata, which is next to Meroë. In Arabia the army advanced into the territories of the Sabaei to the town of Mariba.