How To Use Augustus In A Sentence
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Under the editorship of Professor Robert L. Cleve, PhD, OAF, KCR, the issue begins with his outstanding study of the inscriptions and illustrations from the 1937 issue of postage stamps from the Italian Kingdom celebrating the bimillenary of the birth of the Emperor Augustus.
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Dio Cassius can scarcely be mistaken when he says that Tyre and Sidon were "enslaved" -- i.e. deprived of freedom -- by Augustus, [14477] who must certainly have revoked the privilege originally granted by Pompey.
History of Phoenicia
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When the three greatest rulers of Europe -- Philip Augustus, [13] king of France, Richard I, king of
Early European History
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Livia is desperately ambitious that her son, Tiberius, become Emperor on Augustus’s death, never mind that there are quite a few other heirs before him, or that neither Augustus nor Tiberius himself is very keen on Tiberius being Emperor.
Dissecting the Devil «
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He had a scruffy old teddy bear which went by the name of Augustus.
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Wrangham -- a college acquaintance of mine, -- an admirer of me, and a pitier of my principles; -- one to George Augustus Pollen, Esq.; one to
Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1.
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In October 1830, George Augustus Robinson noted: ‘Nothing is heard of at Launceston but extirpating the original inhabitants.’
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Augustus Caesar had been imperator of the Roman Empire for more than twenty years.
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Livia settled all things for the succession of her son Tiberius, by continual giving out, that her husband Augustus was upon recovery and amendment, and it is an usual thing with the pashas, to conceal the death of the Great Turk from the janizaries and men of war, to save the sacking of
The Essays
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In this poem, completed and published in 1713, he proceeded, as Virgil had done, from the pastoral vein to the georgic and celebrated the rule of Queen Anne as the Latin poet had celebrated the rule of Augustus.
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His fame rests on his Annals and his Histories which related events from the death of Augustus to the Flavian period.
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He built himself a palace on the Aventine, dressed in the toga, cast a medal with the legend ‘Otto Imperator Augustus’ and on the reverse the proud claim 'Renovatio Imperii Romanorum'.
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As Tiberius was immediately adopted by Augustus, Germanicus became a member of the Julian gens in the direct line of succession; and his career was accelerated by special dispensations.
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During its long existence Pantomime has witnessed other panto impresarios, such as Augustus Harris, ‘Father of modern Pantomime’ at the Drury Lane Theatre in the 1870's.
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An inscription recounts that the bridge was built as a bequest in his will by one Flavos, a Romanized Gaulish aristocrat who was a flamen of the Imperial Cult of Rome and Augustus.
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Call flinched, but Pea Eye didn't notice — Pea Eye was no noticer, as Augustus had often said.
Lonesome Dove
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Augustus was neither an optimate nor a popularis; he was both, or rather, could be either one as the situation required.
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Other Roman remains include the public baths and triumphal arch of Augustus.
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Everyone called Agrippina the honor of her country, the blood of Augustus, the only and last example of the ancient Roman Vertue: And everyone prayed the Gods that they would preserve her Race, and make her live beyond, and after the entire ruin of these wicked men.
Caesars’ Wives
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Augustus; but we have not, of course, the whole of the "acta" of the
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
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The Otago University's registrar, Augustus Hamilton, had pieced together a skeleton of the extinct bird and even added feathers.
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Augustus firmly imposed his discipline on his men: he once dismissed an entire legion in disgrace, and didn't hesitate to decimate troops who would give in to the enemy.
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Gaius Octavius, as Augustus was originally known, was 18 when in 43 BC his great-uncle, the dictator Julius Caesar, was assassinated.
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With Deets dead, Augustus and Call alternated the scouting duties.
The Lonesome Dove Series
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I have seen a learned work about a century old, now entirely forgotten, in which it is maintained that Virgil's fourth Eclogue is simply a genethliacon of Augustus; the arguments, which are ingenious but futile, are drawn from the poem of
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
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The Stanley Company began making rules in 1850, when Augustus Stanley founded A. Stanley & Co. to manufacture boxwood and ivory rules.
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In the 19th century Augustus Pugin, co-architect of the Houses of Parliament, declared gothic to be a morally superior style.
British architecture: from Georgian to the present day
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Perhaps, then, Vergil's great epic does not aim only to magnify the greatness of Augustus' Rome but also to sound a note of caution or, even, warning.
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It reminds one of those commemorative busts associated with Caesar's and Augustus's Rome, or of a statue made for a niche in a European manor house.
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Augustus: and so in Constantine's time, Eusebius brags he governed all the world, universum mundum praeclare admodum administravit, — et omnes orbis gentes
Anatomy of Melancholy
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The gates of the city were thrown open, and the new emperor of the Romans, encompassed on every side by the Gothic arms, was conducted, in tumultuous procession, to the palace of Augustus and
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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This danger was instrumental in throwing Richard into the arms of Philip Augustus, who three years earlier had acceded to the throne of France.
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A coin of Augustus shows what is presumably a square superstructure, with arches on the two faces in view, pilasters or columns, and an entablature but no roof.
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Its purpose was to rectify an accumulated error between the solar and calendar years since the modifications introduced by Augustus.
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One bulb of the most sought-after variety , the flaming red-striped Semper Augustus, sold for twice the yearly income of a rich merchant.
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Given these emphases on significant dates, it may not be coincidental that the Ara Pacis was begun during the year in which Augustus reached the climacteric age of fifty.
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The Aqua Alsietina transported water into the Trastevere area of Rome (to Augustus's 'naumachia' - a man-made lake where the Romans could re-enact sea battles).
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Annan, who died in 1983, exhibited with the leftwing Artists International Association, and once featured in a morale-boosting wartime show in an air-raid shelter beside work by Augustus John.
Dorothy Annan murals listed as former telephone exchange faces demolition
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I guess I must have hummed along or waved my flask to the old familiar march, for presently the villain Augustus (a frightful handle to fix on a decent enough urchin, but no work of mine) detached himself from the waterweed and came to stand snottering before me with his head on one side, thoughtful-like.
THE NUMBERS
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He was born at Vulsinii, son to Sejus Strabo, a Roman knight; in his early youth, he was a follower of Caius Caesar (grandson of Augustus) and lay then under the contumely of having for hire exposed himself to the constupration of Apicius; a debauchee wealthy and profuse: next by various artifices he so enchanted Tiberius, that he who to all others was dark and unsearchable, became to Sejanus alone destitute of all restraint and caution: nor did he so much accomplish this by any superior efforts of policy (for at his own stratagems he was vanquished by others) as by the rage of the Gods against the Roman State, to which he proved alike destructive when he flourished and when he fell.
The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola
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A new record price was set for a silver denarius of the emperor Augustus.
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Where the Lutetian Palace of Julian saluted their darling as Augustus, the sledge-hammer and the stucco of the Haussmann fiat bear desolation in their wake.
Under Two Flags
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Augustus brought dignity to Rome's public life.
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Marble bust. possibly representing one of the peoples conquered by Augustus.
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Although Vespasian was not a member of a high-ranking Roman family, the leges Juliae passed by Augustus had decreed that marriage between an equestrian and a freedwoman was forbidden.
Caesars’ Wives
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Romulus and Aeneas were also considered ancestors of the gens Julia to which Augustus belonged.
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As we see in Augustus Caesar (who was rather diverse from his uncle than inferior in virtue), how when he died he desired his friends about him to give him a plaudite, as if he were conscious to himself that he had played his part well upon the stage.
The Advancement of Learning
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Agrippa was the son-in-law of Augustus and an eminent town planner.
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Augustus III was of a religious turn of mind, and he had Meissen produce sacred art like Kandler's Crucifixion, one of the largest porcelain groups.
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Although he is remembered today only as the father of Augustus, he was at this time aedile of the plebs and very much the coming man.
CONSPIRATA
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AEneas; these ideas, I say, and these sentiments, appertained to the polished century of Augustus and not to the epoch or, scene of the Trojan War.
Satyricon
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Benedictines.] * It does not appear that the establishment of the indiction is to be at tributed to Constantine: it existed before he had been created Augustus at Rome, and the remission granted by him to the city of Autun is the proof.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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In 1937 and 1938 marked the bimillenary of the birth of Caesar Augustus.
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This rescript, which is in the next chapter of Eusebius (E.H. iv. 13) is in the sole name of Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus Armenius, though Eusebius had just before said that he was going to give us a rescript of Antoninus Pius.
Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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From adulation of Augustus it was also called charta augusta and charta livia.
Forty Centuries of Ink
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Tacitus says that Augustus had a memoir, written in his own hand, which contained the revenues of the empire, the fleets and contributary kingdoms.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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At twenty-four he had been a deacon, at twenty - seven a priest, at thirty a rector, and at thirty-five a prebendary; and as his rectory was rich and his prebendal stall well paid, the Rev. Augustus Horne was called by all, and called himself, a happy man.
Tales of all countries
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However, Suetonius relates that Octavius, surnamed Augustus, was so weak as to believe that a fish, which leaped from the sea upon the shore at Actium, foreboded that he should gain the battle.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Augustus Blockwell M. P., signor Laci Daremo, the robust tenor, blueeyed Bert, the liftboy, Henri Fleury of Gordon Bennett fame,
Ulysses
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The seeds of Julius's courage and compelling energy, of Augustus's prudence, of the libidinousness and cruelty of Tiberius, of Caligula's folly, of Nero's artistic genius and enormous vanity, are all within me.
Crome Yellow
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When he assumed power in 27 BC, Augustus was confronted with the problem of subduing the Alpine region, whose warlike tribes threatened the communications between Italy and Gaul.
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Upon this object, centred all princely honours; he was by Augustus adopted for his son, assumed Colleague in the Empire, partner in the jurisdiction tribunitial, and presented under all these dignities to the several armies: instances of grandeur which were no longer derived from the secret schemes and plottings of his mother, as in times past, while her husband had unexceptionable heirs of his own, but thenceforth bestowed at her open suit.
The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola
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As a result of some scandal, perhaps involving the women of the imperial family, which Ovid refers to as carmen et error 'a song/poem and a mistake, 'Augustus banished Ovid to Tomi, near the Black Sea.
About.com Ancient / Classical History
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Augustus appearance was happen to provide an opportunity for them.
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A coin of Augustus shows what is presumably a square superstructure, with arches on the two faces in view, pilasters or columns, and an entablature but no roof.
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The few literary papers are concerned with true and false taste, the delights of reading, Mr. Akenside's “Pleasures of the Imagination” and the horrors of the same, the outwearing of romance, and love-letters passed between Augustus Caesar and Livia Drusilla, which last Mr.. Haywood was qualified to judge as an expert.
The Life and Romances of Mrs Eliza Haywood
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His full name was William Augustus Grove.
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In 18 he was given tribunician power for five years, a power held otherwise only by Augustus, and his imperium (overriding military and civil authority) was renewed for the same period.
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Is he to be anathematised for rebelling against his father, Henry II, in alliance with Philip Augustus, destined to prove his bitterest and most unscrupulous opponent?
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And when Augustus brought these conflicts to an end, there was a host of high-minded individuals, such as Vergil,
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta - Nobel Lecture
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The idea that the word "ambulance" comes from the Latin word to walk, "ambulare", proved particularly intriguing, as did the fact that the months July and August were named after the first two Roman emperors, Julius Caesar and Augustus.
The Guardian World News
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One bulb of the most sought-after variety , the flaming red-striped Semper Augustus, sold for twice the yearly income of a rich merchant.
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It was originally constructed as an orangery for Augustus the Strong who was an avid art collector.
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Augustus primoque rudis flagrauerat aestu; nec nouus unde calor nec quid suspiria uellent, nouerat incipiens et adhuc ignarus amandi. non illi uenator equus, non spicula curae, 5 non iaculum torquere libet; mens omnis aberrat in uulnus quod fixit Amor. quam saepe medullis erupit gemitus! quotiens incanduit ore confessus secreta rubor nomenque beatum iniussae scripsere manus!
The Marriage of Honorius and Maria
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In 460 AD, the Goths leaded by Odoacer invade Rome; kill the parents of the Caesar Romulus Augustus and send the boy and his tutor Ambrosinus to a prison in Capri.
The Last Legion (2007) | Happy Share
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There was not even a respectable shade tree within twenty or thirty miles; in fact, the actual location of the nearest decent shade was a matter of vigorous debate in the offices — if you wanted to call a roofless barn and a couple of patched-up corrals offices — of the Hat Creek Cattle Company, half of which Augustus owned.
Lonesome Dove
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She was raised in a castle, where Augustus John once famously found her father reading The Times in a suit of armour.
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Julius Caesar's assassination in 44 BC was followed by the development of imperial rule, headed by the first emperor, Augustus.
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Augustus meeting an ass with a lucky name foretold himself good fortune.
Thoughts on Various Subjects
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On it was erected a triumphal arch in Augustus's honor.
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They were also the armies which they and other commanders turned against each other in the civil wars which destroyed the republic and led to the establishment of a principate under Caesar's adopted son, Augustus.
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We live, Augustus, in an age eminently favorable to the growth of all roguery which is careful enough to keep up appearances.
Armadale
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Its purpose was to rectify an accumulated error between the solar and calendar years since the modifications introduced by Augustus.
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200, Clement of Alexandria reported that certain Egyptian theologians "over curiously" assign, not the year alone, but the day of Christ's birth, placing it on 25 Pachon 20 May in the twenty-eighth year of Augustus, though they did this believing that the ninth month, in which Christ was born, was the ninth of their own calendar.
Archive 2005-12-01
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Charles Augustus, she selected an harmonicon, and toys for the other three Howes.
Elsie Marley, Honey
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T.is warmth was stopped by Augustus Hervey, who spoke to order, and called for the question; but young T. T.wnshend confirmed, that the term profligacy was applied by all mankind to the conduct on the warrants.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
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He turned it down, but the first six odes of Book III, very serious - minded and written in alcaic metre, are closely aligned with Augustus’ policies.
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La Calprenède, as we have seen, does not give Arminius's wife her usual name of Thusnelda, but, to obviate a complaint from readers who have heard of Varus, he invents a protest on "Herman sla lerman" part against that general, who has trepanned him into captivity and gladiatorship, and makes him warn Augustus that he will be true to the Romans _unless_
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
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A bronze bust of one of Tenby's most famous sons, Augustus John, has just been bought by the town's museum and art gallery.
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The general impression is that agricultural expansion began under Augustus and flagged somewhat during the troubled period following his death.
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Behind it Tiberius in a travelling-cloak, his hands unringed, marched meditating on the curiosities of life, while to the rear there straggled a troop of dancing satyrs, led by a mime dressed in resemblance of Augustus, whose defects he caricatured, whose vices he parodied and on whom the surging crowd closed in.
Imperial Purple
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Regarding the so-called "dynasties" - POSSIBLY AN OFFENSIVE ANALOGY / MISNOMER written by Augustus, December 16, 2008
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The empire held together, because Augustus and Tiberius had created a centripetalism in the provinces; and these continued in the main through it all to enjoy the good government the first two emperors had made a tradition in them, and felt but little the hands of the fools or madmen reigning in
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19
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Augustus, and was burned in the old market place 31 May, 1431, after her so-called abjuration at the cemetery of St. Ouen; St. John
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
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Later he married Claudia Pulchra, the grand-niece of Augustus, and was able to acquire some political influence.
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Determined to prove to his public that he really was “first among equals,” a man of the people, a regular Joe just like them, Augustus declined the opportunity to move to a rich palace in the style of an Eastern dynast like Cleopatra.
Caesars’ Wives
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G. Whittier, in his "Songs of Three Centuries," ascribes "Love divine, all love excelling" to that bitter Calvinist, Augustus M. Toplady, giving it as the sole specimen of his verse; when it was really written by the ardent Arminian, Charles Wesley, with whom Toplady was on anything but friendly terms.
Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul
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Thus, like Oedipus, Augustus, as the seeming outsider, is able to fathom the entrammeling web of the double curse which ‘lies over the land,’ and cut boldly through its snares.
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Yet the trust was a new legal institution, developed only in Augustus' reign.
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Augustus's testamentary review of legionary strength, and his summation of public revenues and expenses, underlay his recommendation that the borders of the empire be frozen in perpetuity.
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As he opened the door of the main office, his ear was saluted by a low grunting sound, and there in evening dress was Mr. Augustus Alfonso Brockelsby, reclining in a big chair, asleep, if one could with propriety call the stupor in which he was sunk, sleep.
The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton
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Two years later, in the autumn of 23 BC, while the forty-year-old Augustus struggled to recover from a near-fatal illness, Marcellus himself died suddenly of a mysterious sickness at the age of twenty, widowing Julia and unexpectedly becoming the first occupant of the brand-new family mausoleum, now looming over the city like a 130-foot-high wedding cake.
Caesars’ Wives
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There were also some further internal arrangements, for Augustus separated married from unmarried men, and assigned a separate cuneus to youths, near whom their tutors were stationed.
Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
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Its purpose was to rectify an accumulated error between the solar and calendar years since the modifications introduced by Augustus.
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Yet, withal, he plainly touches at the office of the high-priesthood, with which Augustus was invested, and which made his person more sacred and inviolable than even the tribunitial power.
Dedication
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The peaceful panels with Numa and Pax thus frame the south processional frieze, which includes Augustus with priests and lictors, followed by members of the imperial family.
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Augustus himself owed much of his rise to his adoption as a seventeen-year-old by his great-uncle Julius Caesar.62 In 13 BC, once Gaius and Lucius had reached the age of seven and four, respectively, the Roman mint issued a coin featuring the emperor on one side, and on the other a tiny fleshy-featured bust of Julia, her hair neatly arranged in the nodus, flanked by the heads of her two infant boys.
Caesars’ Wives
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Shelby, Jan. 12, 1901; p.D. Augustus and Sue (Palmer); Sigma Phi Epsilon; employee Gilbert C. White, constr. engr.,
Alumni History of the University of North Carolina
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Empire; that Imperator, Cæsar, and Augustus, once titles lowlier than that of King, had now become, as they have ever since remained, titles far loftier.
Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 6 Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland, part 2
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The Rev. Augustus Horne was, at the time of my narrative, a beneficed clergyman of the Church of England.
Tales of all countries
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It was built by the duumvir (one of the two top local officials) Marcus Tullius at his expense in honour of the Emperor Augustus.
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The basic coinage instituted by Augustus comprised the copper quadrans, brass semis, copper as, brass dupondius and sestertius, silver denarius, and gold aureus.
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Likewise, in the Metamorphoses Ovid subverts the epic, the literary genre best suited to Augustus's program of cultural classicism.
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Delegation was essential in so unwieldy an entity, and, like his predecessors, Augustus appointed senatorial legates and equestrian prefects to serve his imperium.
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Despite all differences of approach, he himself wrote only two years ago, "Ronald Syme wrote superbly and authoritatively when he used prosopography to clarify a revolutionary movement ” the upsurge of new social strata under Augustus" (English Historical Review, 1973, p. 115; compare his review of The Roman Revolution reprinted in Secondo Contributo alla Storia degli Studi Classici, 1960, 207 f. and his remarks in Studi Romani 14, 1966, 1-3).
Bearing Gifts
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With Augustus de Morgan, Peirce is one of the founders of the logic of relatives.
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Augustus added a fourth _decuria_ from the lower classes, and Caligula a fifth, so that Quintilian could speak of a juryman as ordinarily a man of little intelligence and no legal or general knowledge.
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius
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From the time of Augustus the name Illyria was applied not only to the present Province of Illyria, since 11 B.C. a province of the empire and called Dalmatia (embracing the Dalmatia of to-day, Montenegro, the western part of Croatia, and the northern part of Albania), but was made to include the districts of Rhaetia,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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Augustus, a so-called Livia, a bust of the young Marcellus, bas-reliefs, dancing women, a few inscriptions, and the seal of a Roman dentist, which I suppose he lost there one day when watching a play, and which has recently been found there.
In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc
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The Emperor Augustus had built a round shrine in front of it to put a Roman hallmark on Greece.
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Harlan in 2 weeks in which Augustus' change of oath propagates through soldiers and their descendants into a very powerful magical construct that preserves the Western Empire - there is still the split though -, and now we get to 621 and well Persia, Arabs, the whole saga of Heraclius but in this context with an allied Western Empire and magic...
The Legions of Rome: novelizations - "Soldier of Rome 1/2" by James Mace and "Marius Mules" by SJ Turney (Overview/Review by Liviu Suciu)
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Roman trade coins, ranging from the silver dinarii, issued by Augustus, to the gold aurei, minted by Tiberius and Nero, are a highlight.
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When a country is overstocked with people, as a pasture is oft overlaid with cattle, they had wont in former times to disburden themselves, by sending out colonies, or by wars, as those old Romans; or by employing them at home about some public buildings, as bridges, roadways, for which those Romans were famous in this island; as Augustus Caesar did in Rome, the
Anatomy of Melancholy
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A grateful Senate voted him the cognomen Augustus, by which name he is generally known in the history books.
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Book number two told him how to dump them, and book number three was how to pick up men, well, this was not to the liking of the newly reigning emperor Augustus, who at that time was trying to moralize Rome.
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There is not a single beach, promontory, belvedere or ruin that does not teem with literature, from Augustus to Gorky’.
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After launching his writing career as a reporter, first with the Morning Chronicle in 1834, using the pseudonym, Boz (Boz was a nickname for his younger brother Augustus) ; Dickens began contributing 20 monthly installments of a series (April 1836, through November 1837,) centering on comical adventures through the English countryside, that became known as the Pickwick Papers, his first novel, a work which earned him instant fame.
Bill Lucey: Remembering Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens, on his 200th Birthday
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Augustus was also very proud of the shows he offered to the Romans and one of the statements describes a naval battle on the Tiber which involved more than 30 triremes and biremes.
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Augustus are forgotten the terrible invective of Tacitus and the sarcasm of Juvenal recall the cruelties and the terrors of Tiberius.
Stray Studies from England and Italy
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As with the first meetings of other emperors and their consorts, such as Titus and Berenice or Livia and Augustus, we do not know when or where Domna met her future husband, who was still married at the time of his visit to Emesa.
Caesars’ Wives
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Actually, Augustus Moore Herring was quite a pioneer during the very earliest days of heavier-than-air flight.
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Augustus, notwithstanding his vapoury insubjection, visited his father and the partners in the bank, leaving his bride in snug lodgings at a respectable distance from all.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843
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It was a crime to undress before a statue of Augustus, to mention his name in the latrinae, to carry a coin with his image into a lupanar.
Imperial Purple
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Caesar, Augustus and their successors sought to ensure a steady supply of peasant soldiers for the legions by settling veterans in colonies outside Italy.
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Garrett Augustus Morgan (1877-1963) This African-American inventor is responsible for saving thousands, if not millions of lives.
Five People Born on March 4 | myFiveBest
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We may say that there were two dangers which constantly impended over the Roman Empire from its inauguration by Augustus to its redintegration by Diocletian -- a
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03
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A hundred years later the Eastern Emperor Flavius Phocas Augustus, his own realm crumbling, elevated Boniface III, the patriarch of Rome, to a position of primacy over the other major bishops of the Christian world—those in Antioch, Alexandria, and Constantinople—and bestowed on him the title Vicar of Christ, or Pope.
The Great Experiment
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Since Tuvan throat-singing seems to be a popular topic around here, I wanted to shine a little light on another throat-singing bluesman from the Bay Area, Seth Augustus.
Boing Boing
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While Oedipus loses his ability to name his parents due to his incest and parricide, Augustus loses his power to recognize parricide and incest because he has been denied the freedom to know his parentage.
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Call flinched, but Pea Eye didn't notice -- Pea Eye was no noticer, as Augustus had often said.
Lonesome Dove
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One to Mrs. Barbauld; one to Wakefield; one to Dr. Beddoes: one to Wrangham, (a C.llege acquaintance of mine, an admirer of me, and a pitier of my principles!) one to George Augustus Pollen, Esq. one to C. Lamb; one to Wordsworth; one to my brother G. and one to Dr. Parr.
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey
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Augustus Hare described it as “an imitation, not a caricature of the best Italian models,” was built for R.S. Holford in 1851-53 on the site of an older house of the same name belonging to the extinct earldom of Dorchester.
Mansions of Mayfair | Edwardian Promenade
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But when Maximin acquainted him that he had been saluted Augustus by the army, Galerius was obliged to acknowledge him as well as Constantine, as equal associates in the Imperial dignity.]
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Although Augustus cleverly refused all titles but principate, the Romans did make a god of him after death.
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The "queenly" Lady Hilda Trelawney Hope, the unnamed avenger in Charles Augustus Milverton, the intrepid Violet Hunter - plenty of material for filmmakers to draw on!
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As they talked, one of his chickens scratched up a coin that the young Swede recognised (so he says) as bearing the head of the Emperor Augustus.
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Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus, popularly known simply as Tiberius, was the Roman emperor at the time of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
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On 1 May 305 the elderly and physically ailing Diocletian persuaded his reluctant co-Augustus Maximian to abdicate with him, and Constantius and Galerius were jointly elevated to senior honors.
Caesars’ Wives
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'Crescit occulto velut arbor aevo fama Marcellis,' we have a reference to the marriage in B.C. 25 of Augustus 'daughter,
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors
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Of "Christian legends" and beliefs, besides the euhemerist theory, widely held, of the heathen gods there are few hints, save the idea that Christ was born in the reign of Frode, Frode having been somehow synchronised with Augustus, in whose reign also there was a world-peace.
The Danish History, Books I-IX
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'How much will Sir Augustus pay to have you back as a bedwarmer?'
Sharpe's Enemy
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They're all overshadowed, really, by Octavian, the man who will become Caesar Augustus, the first true emperor, you know, Julius Caesar's adopted son, his real great-nephew.
The True Story Of 'Antony And Cleopatra'
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It is certain that either she or some other influential personage succeeded in gaining possession of the proofs of Julia's guilt and brought them to Augustus, threatening to lay them before the pretor and to institute proceedings if he did not discharge his duty.
The Women of the Caesars
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The ancient Roman architectural writer Vitruvius could be, at times, a bit of a gloomy Gus -- or Augustus -- whose back-to-basics canons don't always match up with the occasional, agreeable messiness of later Roman classicism, but in retelling this story he did have a point.
The Dangers of Architectural Positivism
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The Romans lived through the long and peaceful reign of Augustus, barely recognising, until Tiberius and Caligula, how, with the most delicate republican tactfulness in shuffling offices, he had equipped them, if not with a king, certainly with a master.
2009 July 08 « Sigmund, Carl and Alfred
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The stripes of the Semper Augustus were caused by the genes of a virus.
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There was not even a respectable shade tree within twenty or thirty miles; in fact, the actual location of the nearest decent shade was a matter of vigorous debate in the offices—if you wanted to call a roofless barn and a couple of patched-up corrals offices—of the Hat Creek Cattle Company, half of which Augustus owned.
The Lonesome Dove Series
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Harriet — Augustus — let me intreat, let me insist upon it, that my father be immediately assured my ready — my officious consent waits to sign any deed, however binding, which shall give liberty to the whole of the jointured estate.
Vicissitudes in Genteel Life
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In the case of the Louvre, officially known as Palais du Louvre (the Palace of the Louvre), the main building used today was formerly the fortress of King Philip Augustus in the 12th century.
