All Augustus Flashcards
Velleius Paterculus 89.2-3
Foreign wars suppressed, peace restored, the frenzy of arms everywhere was lulled to a rest, validity restored to the laws and dignity to the senate.
Cassius Dio 53.17
The entire direction of the administration was entirely in accordance with the one in power at the time.
They may destroy the guilty party without a trial
Tacitus Annals 1.1
[Augustus] Gathered beneath his empire a world outworn by civil broils.
Res Gestae 34
After that time I took precedence above all in rank, but in power I possessed no more than those who were my colleagues in any magistracy.
Suetonius Augustus 26
He received offices and honours before the usual age, and some of a new kind and for life. He usurped the consulship in his twentieth year of age, leading a legion against the city as if it were that of an enemy.
Horace Odes 3.6
Ancestral crimes, though innocent you’ll pay the Gods for, Roman, till you restore their temples.
Fertile our sin stained first the marriage bed, the family, the home.
Ovid Fasti 2.55
Beneath his care our temples did not feel the searing touch of age.
Res Gestae 3
Wars both civil and foreign, I undertook throughout the world, on sea and land, and when victorious I spared all citizens who sued for pardon.
Virgil Aeneid 677
On one side was Augustus Caesar, leading the Italians to battle together with the senate and people.
Res Gestae 26
I extended the boundaries of all the provinces which were bordered by races not yet subject to our empire. The provinces of Gaul, the Spains, Germany.
Suetonius Augustus 28
He so beautified the city so he could justly boast that he had found it built of brick and left it in marble.
Res Gestae 20
I rebuilt 82 temples to the gods.
Tacitus 1.2.1
[Augustus] seduced the soldiery with gifts and the people with corn and everyone else with the delights of peace.
Tacitus 4.37
The deified Augustus had not forbidden the construction of a temple at Pergamum.
Suetonius Augustus 30
He divided the city into regions and wards
To guard against fires he devised a system of stations of night watchmen.
