Key Quotes

• The victor to the gods his thanks express'd, And Rome, triumphant, with his presence bless'd [Virgil]
• You raped married women: under Caesar they are ordered. To be chaste: you permitted the guilty your grove: he forbids them [Ovid]
• I rebuilt in the city eighty-two temples of the gods, omitting none which at that time stood in need of repair [Res Gestae]
• he seduced the soldiers with gifts, the people with corn, and everyone with the delights of peace [Tacitus]
• amounting to upwards of two thousand volumes, he committed to the flames [Suetonius]
• He was cautious in forming friendships, but clung to them with great constancy [Suetonius]
• Tiberius was appointed successor more out of necessity than choice [Suetonius]
• it was he who appeared to be emperor and Tiberius a kind of off- shore monarch [Dio]
• In relation to those who were his favourites, his behaviour constituted madness [Suetonius]
• learned by actual experience that he was not a god [Dio]
• a return to senatorial government was totally unrealistic [Josephus]