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‘a maddened queen was still

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plotting the capital’s and empire’s ruin’ HORACE, ODES 1.37

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‘With her crowd of

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deeply corrupted creatures’ HORACE, ODES 1.37

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‘no sign of womanish

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fear at the sword’ HORACE, ODES 1.37

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MA ‘enslaved

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under her rule’ PROPERTIUS, ELEGIES, 3.11

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‘Who demanded the walls of

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Rome and the Senate bund to her rule, as a reward for her obscene husband’ PROPERTIUS, ELEGIES 3.11

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‘Spread her foul

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mosquito nets over the Tarpeian rock’ PROPERTIUS, ELEGIES 3.11

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‘You fled

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then to the wandering mouths of frightened Nile’ PROPERTIUS, ELEGIES 3.11

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‘deadly

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monster’ HORACE, ODES 1.37

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‘fortune did not

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favour their oars alike’ PROPERTIUS, ELEGIES 4.6

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‘free your country

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from fear… relying on you as it’s protector’ PROPERTIUS, ELEGIES 4.6

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‘sails filled

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by Jupiter’s favour’ PROPERTIUS, ELEGIES 4.6

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‘their fleets ride an

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unwilling sea’ PROPERTIUS, ELEGIES 4.6

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‘Caesar, our god, plots war

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against rich India’ PROPERYIUS, ELEGIES 3.4

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‘Men, the reward are great:

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far lands prepare triumph: Tiber and Euphrates will flow to your tune’ PROPERTIUS, ELEGIES 3.4

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‘Do your accustomed

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duty’ PROPERTIUS, ELEGIES 3.4

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‘Its enough for me I can

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cheer them on their sacred way’ PROPERTIUS, ELEGIES 3.4

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‘Caesar’s axles

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burdened with booty’ PROPERTIUS, ELEGIES 3.4

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‘Galla’s chastity?

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Your morals deserve a different wife!’ PROPERTIUS, ELEGIES 3.12

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‘may all you greedy

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ones perish equally’ PROPERTIUS, ELEGIES 3.12

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‘Postumus will be another

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Ulysses with a wifely wonder’ PROPERTIUS, ELEGIES 3.12

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‘There is no greater achievement among Caesars actions

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than that he stood father to our emperor’ OVID, METAMORPHOSES

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‘Therefore, in order for the Emperor not to be born of

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mortal seed, Caesar needed to be made a god’ OVID

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‘the most courageous avenger

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of his father’s murder’ OVID

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‘Earth is

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ruled by Augustus’ OVID

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Venus 'saw grim death being readied for Caesar' 'she
grew pale' OVID
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'Our age, fertile
in its wickedness, has first defiled the marriage bed' HORACE, ODES 23BC
27
'under the instruction of
their strict mothers' HORACE ODES 3.6
28
'The young men who stained
the punic sea with blood where not born of such parentage' HORACE ODES 3.6
29
'young girl takes delight in learning Greek dances
...the extravagant buyer of her shame' HORACE ODES 3.6
30
'Seeking that laurel, that's
bought at the price of death' HORACE ODES 3.14
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'mothers of virgins and youths
now safe and sound' HORACE ODES 3.14
32
'Ill fear not civil war, nor
death by violence, while Caesar has command of the Earth' HORACE ODES 3.14
33
'When the Sybilline
verses have issued their warning' HORACE CARMEN SAECULARES 17BC
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'bring to fruitation,
The senate's decrees concerning the wedlock of women who will bear us more children, The laws of marriage' HORACE CARMEN SAECULARES
35
'Gentle and peaceful
Apollo lay down your arms; HORACE CARMEN SAECULRES
36
'blessed plenty
dares appear again' HORACE CARMEN SAECULARES
37
'Adorn our Ceres with
garlands of wheat ears' HORACE CARMEN SAECULARES
38
'Pheobus condemned my verse
when I tried to sing of war a conquered cities' HORACE ODES 4.15
39
'closed the gates of Janus,
freed at last from all war' HORACE ODES 4.15
40
'fame and
majesty of our empire' HORACE ODES 4.15
41
'The tribes who drink from the depths of the
Danube... will not break the Julian law' HORACE ODES 4.15
42
'We'll sing of Troy
Anchises, and the people of Venus' HORACE ODES 4.15
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'a lion cub newly
weaned from rich milk... fated to die in his inexperienced jaws' HORACE ODES 4.4
44
'I liberated the republic,
which was being tyrannised by a faction' RG
45
'I pardoned all
the citizens that asked for mercy' RG
46
When dictatorship was offered to me by the senate and people...
I refused it' RG
47
'I freed the whole population from
fear and immediate danger, at my own cost and effort' RG (grain supply)
48
'I received no magistracies,
that where not in keeping with the customs of our ancestors' RG
49
'Before my birth, it had been closed
twice in all recorded memory... the sentae voted that 3 times it should be closed' (Gates of Janus Quirinus) RG
50
'Four times I helped the treasury with my own money' how much?
150 million sesterces RG
51
'When taxes where insufficient,
I have out, from my own granary and inheritance' RG
52
'I rebuilt the Capitol and Theatre of Pompey,
both works of great expence without inscribing my name on either' RG
53
'In my 6th consulship
I restored 82 temples' RG
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'I rebuilt the
Flaminian Way' RG
55
'I doubled the capacity of the
aqueduct called Marcia' RG
56
'I freed the sea
from pirates' (and returned 30,000 slaves to owners) RG
57
How many men fought in gladiatorial shows?
10,000 RG
58
'I gave to the people hunts of African beasts' How many beasts?
3,500 RG
59
'Embassies from kings in India were often sent to me...
sought our friendship' RG
60
'After I had extinguished civil wars, after by
universal consent, I was in control of all affairs, I transferred the republic from my power to the control of the senate and the roman people' RG
61
'by senatorial decree I was named
Augustus and the doors of my house where publicly clothed in laurel' RG
62
'a golden shield was put in the
Curia Julia... for my courage, clemency, justice and piety' RG
63
'The whole of Rome gave me the title of
pater patriae' RG
64
Romulus... 'Augustus was a more
original and honourable title' SUETONIUS, LIFE OF AUGUSTUS
65
'He fought in five
civil conflicts... the first and last of these were against Mark Antony' SUETONIUS
66
'The motivation for all this warfare was that Augustus
considered it his duty to avenge Caesar's death' SUETONIUS
67
'Antony claimed that
Augustus took flight... and did not reappear till the next day lacking his horse and cloak' SUETONIUs
68
'Rumours spread that Augustus had engineered
the fate of both hirtus and pansa' SUETONIUS
69
'When the senate out lawed Antony,
he allowed his friends and relatives to join him' SUETONIUS
70
'allowed both Antony and Cleopatra a
honourable burial' SUETONIUS
71
(sent brutus' head to be placed at feet of JCs divine image) 'he showed no
clemency' S
72
'only 2 foreign campaigns....
his other wars were conducted by his generals' S
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'he never wared against a nation without
just and necessary cause' S