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I have freed the sea from pirates. In that war with the slaves Idelivered to their masters for punishment about thirty thousand slaves who had fled from their masters and taken up arms against the state.118The whole of Italy voluntarily took the oath of allegiance to me, and demanded me as leader in that war in which I conquered at Actium. The provinces of Gaul, Spain, Africa, Sicily and Sardinia swore the same allegiance to me.119There were more than seven hundred senators who at that time fought under my standards, and among these, up to the day on which these words are written, eighty-three have either before or since been made consuls, and about one hundred and seventy have been made priests.120