Augustus

2, 23, 1, in some individual cases of breach of trust directed the consuls to interpose their authority and compel trustees to execute their charge;

and, remembering the celebrated ordinance, Cum nexum faxit mancipiumque, uti lingua nuncupassit, ita jus esto, it may occur to us to wonder why Augustus did not imitate the energetic brevity of the ancient legislator, and simply enact, Cum testamentum faxit codicillosve, uti fideicommiserit, ita jus esto.

Codicils, as well as fideicommissa, according to Justinian, first acquired legal validity in the time of Augustus, who, being trustee under a codicil, set the example of performing the trust.

For if Aratus of Sicyon thought it a hard case, that private possessions of fifty years’ standing should be disturbed, how much weightier is that maxim of Augustus, that it is the character of a good man and a good subject to wish for no change in the present government, and, in the words, which Thucydides has assigned to Alcibiades, to support the constitution, under which he has been born?

Philo has recorded a beautiful saying of Augustus, who observed that the assemblies of the Jews were not Bacchanalian revels, or meetings to disturb the public peace, but schools of virtue.

This is conformable to what was said by Augustus, that no war should be undertaken, but where the hopes of advantage could be shewn to overbalance the apprehensions of ruin.

yet the temporary splendors of imperial patronage were soon obscured by the bad principle of a tyranny over property;

When I read those extracted from the words “sovereign, supreme, sphere, paramount, necessary and convenient,” I thought I saw the end of the sound revolutionary good sense by which our governments were constituted, as Rome saw puns and quibbles substituted for the masculine eloquence which preceded the age of Augustus.

Augustus no doubt persuaded himself, that his government would make Rome happier, than the restoration of the republick;

"I would rather have," he would say, "the esteem of the deified Augustus, the benefit of Claudius.

1 The deified Augustus relegated his daughter, unchaste beyond the reproach of unchastity, and made the scandals of the imperial house public:

1 By nothing did Furnius oblige Caesar Augustus more, and render him more ready to grant other requests, than that, when he had obtained pardon for his father, who had followed the party of Antony, he said:

Our Lord was born in the twenty-eighth year, when the first census was ordered to be made under Augustus.

Gaius Julius Caesar three years, four months, six days, after whom Augustus reigned forty-six years, four months, one day;

From this to the victory of Augustus, when Antony slew himself in Alexandria, two hundred and ninety-four years, when Augustus was consul for the fourth time.

Augustus caused to be passed the all-important group of Leges Juliæ and among later emperors the most active promulgators of constitutions are princes who, like Constantine, have the concerns of the world to readjust, The true period of Roman Statute Law does not begin till the establishment of the empire.

The final blow to the Responses was dealt by Augustus, who limited to a few leading jurisconsults the right of giving binding opinions on cases submitted to them, a change which, though it brings us nearer the ideas of the modern world, must obviously have altered fundamentally the characteristics of the legal profession and the nature of its influence on Roman law.

The last Quæstiones were added by the Emperor Augustus, and from that time the Romans may be said to have had a tolerably complete criminal law.

Ab Arabico autem sinu ad Indiam, Indicique Oceani insulas, et auream usque Chersonesum, quam esse Iapanem credunt plerique, etiam re Romana florente navigari solitum, iter a Plinio descriptum, legationes ab Indis ad Augustum, ad Claudium etiam ex Taprobane insula, deinde gesta Traiani et tabulae Ptolemaei satis ostendunt.

There is also much to substantiate the belief that the inhabitants of Cadiz were well acquainted long ago with this route, because when Gaius Caesar, the son of Augustus, held command in the Arabian gulf, pieces were found of shipwrecks recognized as Spanish.

Pliny’s description of the route to the East, the embassies from the Indies to Augustus, and those from Ceylon to the emperor Claudius, and finally the accounts of the deeds of Trajan, and the writings of Ptolemaeus, all make it quite clear that in the days of Rome’s greatest splendor voyages were made regularly from the Arabian gulf to India, to the islands of the Indian ocean, and even so far as …

For all things fade and quickly become the stuff of legend, and quickly utter oblivion buries them.

for all things are according to the Nature of the Whole, and in a little while you will be no one and nowhere, as neither Hadrian is, nor Augustus.

The court of Augustus — wife, daughter, grandchildren, ancestors, sister, Agrippa, kinsmen, household, friends, Areius, Maecenas, physicians, sacrificers — the death of a whole court.

And yet how could he have been admitted into the synagogue, so sudden, so unknown — of whose tribe, people, house, and lastly of whose registration under Augustus no one was as yet certain, that registration which the Roman archives guard as the most faithful witness of the Lord's nativity?

But also it is established that censuses were taken under Augustus then in Judea by Sentius Saturninus, among whom they could have inquired his lineage.

But Athenodorus, who was lately among you, whom Augustus respected — do you think, if he had known the city to be such, he would have preferred his sojourn here to that with him?

A well-known statute of the Emperor Augustus, celebrated by Horace in an official ode as the prince’s greatest legislative achievement, had for its object the encouragement and regulation of marriage and the imposition of penalties on celibacy.

It is an economical power of considerable importance, for it is the principal source of those habits of saving and hoarding which characterise the French people, and I regard it as descended, by a long chain of succession, from the obligatory provisions of the marriage law of the Emperor Augustus.

more than Augustus, who, with one of his supports withdrawn, was tottering and not to be bent by the mourning of his own;

Octavia and Livia, the one the sister, the other the wife of Augustus, had lost their sons in youth, each with sure hope of the prince to come.

The deified Augustus, having lost his children and grandchildren, the throng of the Caesars being exhausted, propped up his deserted house with an adoption;

May he equal the deeds of the deified Augustus, and surpass him in years!

The deified Augustus lost Octavia, his dearest sister, and not even from him, for whom she had destined heaven, did Nature take away the necessity of mourning;

To him the deified Augustus gave secret commissions when he set him over Thrace, which he subdued, and Tiberius, departing into Campania, when he was leaving in the city many things both suspected and hated.

Volesus, lately, under the deified Augustus, when proconsul of Asia, having beheaded three hundred men in one day, walked among the corpses with a proud face, as though he had done some grand and noteworthy thing, and cried out in Greek:

"What then?

At last his wife Livia broke in upon him:

no one now speaks of the deified Augustus,

And so he longed for leisure;

So great a thing did leisure seem to him that, because he could not have it in fact, he anticipated it in thought.

The deified Augustus, on whom the gods bestowed more than on any other man, never ceased to pray for rest for himself and to seek release from public affairs;

Under the emperor Augustus this name arose;

Let us see, then, that in the forty-first year of the reign of Augustus, when he had reigned twenty-eight years after the death of Cleopatra, Christ is born.

Augustus, the founder of the empire, did not even wish to be called Lord;

The reformer of the empire, still a little boy and private in station, and only Julius Octavius, and unknown to himself, Marcus Tullius knew from a dream as both Augustus and the burier of the civil whirlwinds.