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.
Res Gestae 25
Those who served under my standards at the time included more than 700 senators.
Augustus republicanism
Fought Antony to ‘restore the republic’
‘The author of the best form of constitution’
Res Gestae 1
Restored liberty to the republic.
Res gestae 8
3 times i revised the role of the senate
res gestae 15
to the Roman plebs i gave out 300 sesterces per man
VP 2.89
the ancient traditional form of the republic was brought back
RG 34.1
I transferred the republic from my own dominion back into the authority of the senate and the roman people
Dio 53.11
A few of them (senators) knew his real intentions and so consequently kept applauding him enthusiastically
Suetonius Augustus 43
None of Augustus’ predecessors had ever provided so many, so different, or so splendid public shows
dio 53.12
his real purpose was that by this arrangement the senators will be unarmed and unprepared for battle
