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Augustus Caesar
- The first emperor of Rome ; the adopted son of Julius Caesar . In his reign, from 44 b.c. to a.d. 14, Rome enjoyed peace ( see ), and the arts flourished. The time of Augustus is considered a golden age for literature in Rome.
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They were now outside the limits of the city itself—the fourteen regions, as they were called, of Augustus Caesar.
So Caius came out in a solemn manner, and offered sacrifice to Augustus Caesar, in whose honor indeed these shows were celebrated.
Augustus Caesar also had begun his Ajax, but unable to please his own judgment with what he had begun, left it unfinisht.
Augustus Caesar was not a valiant man, in the popular acceptation of the word.
Livy, for a commonwealth, is one of the fullest authors; did not he write under Augustus Caesar?
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