Augustus
quoted 5 times by 4 works · as a person
also in the atlas: Augustus the figure
Most often reported — someone's speech given in report. The locus given for each is the passage in the quoting book; the harvest records no place inside what is quoted, and nothing here pretends to.
4 reported · 1 carried
3 neutral 1 endorsedin the voice of Augustus 1 , Trebatius 1 , author/commentator 1
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Institutes of Roman Law Gaius 1 neutral 2 citations
The passage frames a hypothetical legislative pronouncement attributed to Augustus to explain why he did not adopt it.
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.
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Ancient Law Henry Sumner Maine 1 neutral 1 citation
Augustus's restriction of jurisconsult authority is reported as a specific act of command.
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.
chapter ii.: legal fictions. ¶ -
The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 1 endorsed 1 citation
Reports and endorses Augustus's maxim.
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.
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in the voice of Augustus
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On Mercy Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 1 neutral 1 citation · 2 passages
The text explicitly presents these as things Augustus 'kept uttering,' quoted directly in his own words.
Then, after a silence, he was angry with himself far more loudly than with Cinna:
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