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Evelyn S. Shuckburgh. Augustus: The Life and Times of the Founder of the Roman Empire
Augustus: The Life and Times of the Founder of the Roman Empire
Table of Contents
Preface
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)
Footnote
INDEX
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Evelyn S. Shuckburgh
Published by Good Press, 2022
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In these momentous events the young Octavius had taken no part. At the beginning of B.C. 49 he had been sent away to one of his ancestral estates in the country. But we cannot suppose him incapable of understanding their importance or being an uninterested spectator. His stepfather Philippus was Pompeian in sympathy, but his close connection with Cæsar kept him from taking an active part in the war, and he was allowed to remain in Italy, probably for the most part in his Campanian villa. From time to time, however, he came to Rome; and Octavius, who now lived entirely with him, began to be treated with a distinction natural to the near relative of the victorious dictator. Soon after the news of Pharsalia he took the toga virilis, and about the same time was elected into the college of pontifices in the place of L. Domitius Ahenobarbus, who had fallen in the battle. This was an office desired by the highest in the land, and the election of so young a boy, just entering upon his sixteenth year, put him in a position something like that of a prince of the blood; just as afterwards Augustus caused his two grandsons to be designated to the consulship, and declared capable of official employment as soon as they had taken the toga virilis.[12]
Octavius’s relations with his parents and his great-uncle.
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