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Question 1

Res Gestae 6 quote (Magistracies)

Answer 1

“I received no magistracies that were not in keeping with the customs of our ancestors.”

Question 2

Res Gestae 7 quote (Also for Augustus)

Answer 2

“I was pontifex maximus, augur..”

Question 3

Res Gestae 8 quote (Also for Pater Patriae)

Answer 3

“I brought back many examples of ancestral practices … and I myself handed on many exemplary practices..”

Question 4

Res Gestae 12 quote (Altar of Augustan Peace)

Answer 4

”..the senate voted to consecrate an Altar of Augustan Peace for my return, in the field of Mars..”

Question 5

Res Gestae 20 quote (Also for Augustus)

Answer 5

“In my sixth consulship I restored eighty two temples..”

Question 6

Res Gestae 22 quote (Secular Games)

Answer 6

”..I celebrated the Secular Games, with my colleague Marcus Agrippa..”

Question 7

Res Gestae 23 quote (Also for Imperator)

Answer 7

“I gave a naval battle show for the people across the Tiber..”

Question 8

Res Gestae 29 quote (Also for Imperator and Divi F.)

Answer 8

“I compelled the Parthians to return to me the spoils of three Roman armies … I deposited these standards in the inner shrine of the temple of Mars the Avenger.”

Question 9

Suetonius 28 quote (Brick/marble)

Answer 9

”..he could rightly boast that what he had found as brick he left as marble.”

Question 10

Suetonius 29 quote (Ultor and Apollo)

Answer 10

“He carried out an extensive program of public works … his Forum with its Temple of Mars the Avenger (started 20 BC, dedicated 2 BC) … the Palatine Temple of Apollo (dedicated 28 BC)..”

Question 11

Suetonius 29 quote (Agrippa)

Answer 11

”..and a variety of magnificent edifices by Marcus Agrippa (including the original Pantheon in 27 BC).”

Question 12

Suetonius 34 quote (Lex Iuliae)

Answer 12

“He both revised existing laws and enacted new ones … to encourage marriage and procreation..”
(The Lex Iuliae/Julia, 18 BC)

Question 13

Suetonius 56 quote (Free speech)

Answer 13

”..[he] vetoed a law that would have suppressed freedom of speech..”

Question 14

Horace Ode 3.6 quote (Sins of the Romans)

Answer 14

“Romans … you’ll still expiate your father’s sins, till you’ve restored the temples..”

Question 15

Horace Ode 3.6 quote (Fertile in its wickedness)

Answer 15

“Our age, fertile in its wickedness, has first defiled the marriage bed..”

Question 16

Horace Ode 3.6 quote (Punic wars)

Answer 16

“The young men who stained the Punic Sea with blood … were a virile crowd of rustic soldiers..”

Question 17

Horace Ode 4.15 quote (Restored rich crops)

Answer 17

“Caesar, this age has restored rich crops … and brought back the standards at last..”

Question 18

Horace Ode 4.4 quote (Wives and children)

Answer 18

”..with our wives and children we’ll pray … to the gods..”
(Family and religious traditions restored)

Question 19

Horace Carmen Saeculare quote (The Senate’s decrees)

Answer 19

”..bring to fruition the Senate’s decrees concerning … the laws of marriage..”

Question 20

Horace Carmen Saeculare quote (Moral values personified return)

Answer 20

“Now Faith and Peace, Honour, and ancient Modesty dare to return … with neglected Virtue..”

Question 21

Horace Carmen Saeculare quote (Fruitful Earth)

Answer 21

“Let Earth that is fruitful in crops … adorn our Ceres with garlands of wheat-ears..”
(Image of plenty implies Saturnian golden age)

Question 22

Ovid Metamorphoses quote (Direct morality)

Answer 22

“‘When the world is at peace … He will direct morality by his own example..’”
(Speech from Jupiter, reference to the Lex Iuliae/Julia)

Question 23

Propertius Elegy 3.4 quote (Parthia)

Answer 23

”..Parthia’s trophies will get to know Latin Jupiter.”

Question 24

Propertius Elegy 3.4 quote (Also for Imperator)

Answer 24

“And avenge that disaster of Crassus! Go and take care of Roman history!”

Question 25

Propertius Elegy 3.12 quote (Penelope’s loyalty)

Answer 25

“Aelia Galla will outdo Penelope’s loyalty.”
(Galla as a moral role model for Augustan Rome’s women)