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1986 novel by Allan Massie

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1986 novel by Allan Massie

Not who you're looking for? Others named Augustus: first emperor of the Roman Empire and founder of the Julio-C · male given name · 1972 novel by John Edward Williams · imperial rank, honorific and title

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Landgrab: Augustus, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön-Norburg EditionPaint the map. Hold the line. Take the world. Now starring the Augustus, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön-Norburg parody.Landgrab: Augustus Berkeley Paget EditionPaint the map. Hold the line. Take the world. Now starring the Augustus Berkeley Paget parody.Landgrab: Christian Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach EditionPaint the map. Hold the line. Take the world. Now starring the Christian Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach parody.

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Nicholas Augustus BalfourAsk anything — within reason.Sigismund II AugustusThe King of Poland, cornered at a party and loving it.Christian Augustus, Count Palatine of SulzbachOff script, off duty, unreasonably available.

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Overview

Augustus is a 1986 historical novel by Scottish writer Allan Massie, the first of a highly regarded series of novels about the movers and makers of Imperial Rome. Massie begins with Augustus, the successor to Julius Caesar, who ruled the Roman Empire for forty one years and oversaw the beginnings of an extended peace, the Pax Romana.

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Notable quotes

“Si sine uxore pati possemus, Quirites, omnes ea molestia careremus; set quoniam ita natura tradidit, ut nec cum illis satis commode, nec sine illis ullo modo vivi possit, saluti perpetuae potius quam brevi voluptati consulendum est.”
— If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way without them, we must plan for our lasting preservation rather than for our temporary pleasure.
“May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and secure basis and thus enjoy the reward which I desire, but only if I may be called the author of the best possible government; and bear with me the hope when I die that the foundations which I have laid for its future government, will stand firm and stable.”
— Suetonius, Divus Augustus, paragraph 28.
“I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.”
— After having visited the mausoleum of Alexander the Great in Alexandria, Augustus was asked if he also wanted to visit the mausoleum of the Ptolemies; in Suetonius, Divus Augustus, paragraph 16. Translation: Robert Graves, 1957.
“I had a good mind to discontinue permanently the supply of grain to the city, reliance on which had discouraged Italian agriculture, but refrained because some politician would be bound one day to revive the dole as a means of ingratiating himself with the people.”
— The grain supply to the city of Rome was a contentious political issue; in Suetonius, Divus Augustus, paragraph 42. Translation: Robert Graves, 1957.
“Αἴθ᾽ ὄφελον ἄγαμός τ᾽ ἔμεναι ἄγονός τ᾽ ἀπολέσθαι.”
— Ah, never to have married, and childless to have died!
“At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored liberty to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction. For which service the senate, with complimentary resolutions, enrolled me in its order...”
— Referring to the faction of Marcus Antonius.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Overview

Augustus is a 1986 historical novel by Scottish writer Allan Massie, the first of a highly regarded series of novels about the movers and makers of Imperial Rome. Massie begins with Augustus, the successor to Julius Caesar, who ruled the Roman Empire for forty one years and oversaw the beginnings of an extended peace, the Pax Romana.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Augustus is a 1986 historical novel by Scottish writer Allan Massie, the first of a highly regarded series of novels about the movers and makers of Imperial Rome. Massie begins with Augustus, the successor to Julius Caesar, who ruled the Roman Empire for forty one years and oversaw the beginnings of an extended peace, the Pax Romana.

Notable quotes

“Si sine uxore pati possemus, Quirites, omnes ea molestia careremus; set quoniam ita natura tradidit, ut nec cum illis satis commode, nec sine illis ullo modo vivi possit, saluti perpetuae potius quam brevi voluptati consulendum est.”
— If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way without them, we must plan for our lasting preservation rather than for our temporary pleasure.
“May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and secure basis and thus enjoy the reward which I desire, but only if I may be called the author of the best possible government; and bear with me the hope when I die that the foundations which I have laid for its future government, will stand firm and stable.”
— Suetonius, Divus Augustus, paragraph 28.
“I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.”
— After having visited the mausoleum of Alexander the Great in Alexandria, Augustus was asked if he also wanted to visit the mausoleum of the Ptolemies; in Suetonius, Divus Augustus, paragraph 16. Translation: Robert Graves, 1957.
“I had a good mind to discontinue permanently the supply of grain to the city, reliance on which had discouraged Italian agriculture, but refrained because some politician would be bound one day to revive the dole as a means of ingratiating himself with the people.”
— The grain supply to the city of Rome was a contentious political issue; in Suetonius, Divus Augustus, paragraph 42. Translation: Robert Graves, 1957.
“Αἴθ᾽ ὄφελον ἄγαμός τ᾽ ἔμεναι ἄγονός τ᾽ ἀπολέσθαι.”
— Ah, never to have married, and childless to have died!
“At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored liberty to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction. For which service the senate, with complimentary resolutions, enrolled me in its order...”
— Referring to the faction of Marcus Antonius.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Not who you're looking for? Others named Augustus: first emperor of the Roman Empire and founder of the Julio-C · male given name · 1972 novel by John Edward Williams · imperial rank, honorific and title

Augustus across IJR

In the Arcade

Landgrab: Augustus, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön-Norburg EditionPaint the map. Hold the line. Take the world. Now starring the Augustus, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön-Norburg parody.Landgrab: Augustus Berkeley Paget EditionPaint the map. Hold the line. Take the world. Now starring the Augustus Berkeley Paget parody.Landgrab: Christian Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach EditionPaint the map. Hold the line. Take the world. Now starring the Christian Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach parody.

Studio characters

Nicholas Augustus BalfourAsk anything — within reason.Sigismund II AugustusThe King of Poland, cornered at a party and loving it.Christian Augustus, Count Palatine of SulzbachOff script, off duty, unreasonably available.

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