Imperator Caesar Augustus

Reading notes

• The History of Rome, Book 1 §19 Caesar Augustus

  First emperor, in whose reign Livy wrote; he shut Janus after Actium.

• The History of Rome, Book 4 §20 Augustus Caesar

  The first Roman emperor, restorer of the temple of Jupiter Feretrius, whose testimony Livy weighs on the Cossus inscription.

• The History of Rome, Book 28 §12 Augustus Caesar

  Augustus Caesar, under whose leadership, Livy notes, Spain was at last wholly subdued in the writer's own day.

• The History of Rome, Fragments §72 Gaius Octavius, his sister's grandson

  Caesar's heir, the future Augustus, adopted by Caesar's testament.

• The History of Rome, Fragments §90 surnamed Augustus

  Gaius Octavius, now Augustus, sole ruler who ordered the provinces and founded the principate.