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 Pax Romana), and the arts flourished. The time of Augustus is considered a golden age for literature in Rome.

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The month of August is named for Augustus.

A time when literature and the arts in a nation are at their height is sometimes called an “Augustan age.” The eighteenth century in England , when many excellent authors were at work, is called the Augustan Age of English literature.

Jesus was born during Augustus's reign.

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But the precedents I’m going to sketch suggest that every time Trump tells us that one of his accomplishments is so great that "you've never seen anything like it," he’s marching people who believe him one step closer to the same abyss that swallowed Augustus Caesar’s ancient Roman Empire and Adolf Hitler's modern German Reich.

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Julius Caesar’s grand-nephew Octavian provoked and won a chaotic, decade-long power struggle in the republic, emerging victorious and intimidating the shaken senate into naming him Augustus Caesar and granting him the title of Imperator as he established an empire that would outlast him, in one way or another, for roughly a thousand years.

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Although Octavian’s power was now supreme, he exercised it shrewdly by dispensing selective doses of bribery, coercion and worse, turning Rome’s senators into sycophants who granted him the title of princeps, or "first citizen," of Rome in 27 B.C. and gave him the honorific name Augustus Caesar.

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And after all, Zuckerberg has long considered himself the spitting image of Roman Emperor Augustus Caesar so it's only right.

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Livia, the wife of Augustus Caesar, may have turned to murder in her machinations to make her son, Tiberius, emperor.

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Augustus au jus

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