Augustus Quotes

Question 1

Suetonius 40

Answer 1

Considering it also of great importance to keep the people pure and unsullied by any taint of foreign or servile blood

Question 2

Dio 21

Answer 2

The populaces were granted 400 sesterces each

Question 3

VP 2.90.1

Answer 3

The civil wars were now dead and buried, and the limbs of the body politic torn apart by the wounds inflicted by so long a series of conflicts were healing back together

Question 4

Suetonius 28

Answer 4

He had found it built of brick and left it in marble

Question 5

Tacitus 1.2.1

Answer 5

He first conciliated the army by gratuities, the popular by cheapened corn, the world by the amenities of peace

Step by step began to make his ascent and to unite in his own person the functions of the senate, the magistracy, and the legislature

Question 6

Tacitus 1.9.1

Answer 6

Very few situations had been treated by force, and then only in the interests of general tranquillity.

He organised the state, not by instituting a monarchy or a dictatorship, but by creating the title of First Citizen

Question 7

RG 20.1

Answer 7

[Aug built rome] without inscribing my name anywhere on them

Question 8

Horace 3.6

Answer 8

For these [men of previous generations] were manly offspring […] obeying their strict mother’s calls

Question 9

Suetonius 40

Answer 9

At elections for tribunes if there were not candidates enough of senatorial rank, he made appointments from among the knights, with the understanding that after their therm they might remain in whichever order they wished

Question 10

Dio 53.4

Answer 10

It is within my power to rule over you for life […] nay, I give up my office completely, and restore to you absolutely everything

Question 11

53.11

Answer 11

Of the rest [of the senators] some were suspicious of his words, while others believed them

Question 12

Dio 53.17.1

Answer 12

Their purpose being to create the impression that they possess no power that has been granted to them

From his time there was, strictly speaking, a monarchy

Question 13

Dio 53.12.3

Answer 13

His real purpose was that by this arrangement the senators will be unarmed and unprepared for battle, while he alone had arms and maintained soldiers

Question 14

Suetonius 28

Answer 14

It would be hazardous to trust the state to the control of more than one
He twice thought of restoring the republic

Question 15

Suetonius 36

Answer 15

The proceedings of the senate should not be published

Question 16

Suetonius 54

Answer 16

No one suffered for his freedom of speech or insolence

Question 17

RG 34

Answer 17

I transferred the republic from my own control to the will of the senate and the Roman people

Question 18

RG 8.1

Answer 18

Augustus revised the membership of the senate three times

Question 19

RG 20.4.

Answer 19

I rebuilt in the city eighty-two temples of the gods

Question 20

RG 93

Answer 20

He treated with great respect such foreign rites as were ancient and well-established, but held the rest in contempt

Question 21

Tacitus 1.1

Answer 21

Augustus […] gathered beneath his empire a world outworn by civil broils

Question 22

Suetonius 26

Answer 22

He usurped the consulship […] leading his legions against the city

Question 23

Suet 22.1

Answer 23

The gates of the temple of Janus Quirinius […] he closed three times during a far shorter period