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Evelyn S. Shuckburgh. Augustus
Augustus
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH, B.C. 63-44
CHAPTER II. THE ROMAN EMPIRE AT THE DEATH OF IULIUS CÆSAR
CHAPTER III. THE INHERITANCE
CHAPTER IV. THE CONSULSHIP AND TRIUMVIRATE
CHAPTER V. PHILIPPI
CHAPTER VI. PERUSIA AND SICILY
CHAPTER VII. ACTIUM
CHAPTER VIII. THE NEW CONSTITUTION, B.C. 30-23
CHAPTER IX. THE FIRST PRINCIPATUS, B.C. 27-23
CHAPTER X. THE IMPERIAL AND MILITARY POLICY OF AUGUSTUS
CHAPTER XI. AUGUSTUS AND HIS WORSHIPPERS
CHAPTER XII. THE REFORMER AND LEGISLATOR
CHAPTER XIII. LATER LIFE AND FAMILY TROUBLES
CHAPTER XIV. THE LAST DAYS
CHAPTER XV. THE EMPEROR AUGUSTUS, HIS CHARACTER AND AIMS, HIS WORK AND FRIENDS
AUGUSTUS’S ACCOUNT OF HIS REIGN (FROM THE INSCRIPTION IN THE TEMPLE OF ROME AND AUGUSTUS AT ANGORA)
FOOTNOTES
INDEX
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Evelyn S. Shuckburgh
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The boy, who three years before had made a great impression by his delivery of the laudatio at his grandmother Iulia’s funeral, again attracted much attention by his good looks and modesty. He became the fashion; and when (as was customary for the pontifices) he presided in a prætorian court during the feriæ Latinæ, it was observed to be more crowded by suitors and their friends than any of the others. It seems that the rarity of his appearance at Rome added to the interest roused by his great-uncle’s successes. For his mother did not relax her watchfulness. Though legally a man he was still carefully guarded. He was required to sleep in the same simple chamber, to visit the same houses, and to follow the same way of life as before. Even his religious duties were performed before daylight, to escape the languishing looks of intriguing beauties. These precautions were seconded by his own cool and cautious temperament, and the result seems to have been that he passed through the dangerous stage of adolescence—doubly dangerous to one now practically a prince—uncontaminated by the grosser vices of Rome. Stories to the contrary, afterwards spread abroad by his enemies, are of the most unsubstantial and untrustworthy kind.
The young Octavius.
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