'Life of Augustus', Suetonius

• “As a youth he was reproached with various sexual improprieties” including Sextus Pompeius charging Octavian with “effeminacy” and Mark Antony accusing “him of unnatural relations with Julius Caesar as the price of his adoption”
• Suetonius says that not even Octavian’s “friends denied he was given to adulterous behaviour”
• Octavian married “Livia with indecent haste”
• “Impious Caesar played Apollo’s part mendaciously, Feasting, surrounded by the gods in fresh adultery” wilst the country was experiencing “famine and hardship gripping the country at that time”
• “He fought in five civil conflicts”
• Suetonius mentions how Mark Antony named his children with Cleopatra his heirs
• “Mark Antony sued for peace but Augustus drove him to suicide”
• “He allowed both Antony and Cleopatra an honourable burial in the one tomb”
• “He fought in five civil conflicts”
• “Mark Antony sued for peace but Augustus drove him to suicide”
• “He allowed both Antony and Cleopatra an honourable burial in the one tomb”
• Suetonius mentions how the gates of the temple of Janus Quirinus were closed, despite “having previously only been closed twice before his day”
• Augustus argued “that Augustus was a more original and honourable title” than Romulus “because sacred sites and anything consecrated by the augurs are called augusta”
• • Suetonius mentions how Augustus “waited until the triumvir’s death” to take Lepidus’ position as Pontifex Maximus
• • Suetonius says that although “many families exerted all their influence to avoid their daughters’ names being added to the list” of Vestal Virgins “Augustus would declare on oath that if any of his grand-daughters had been of eligible age he would have proposed them”
• Augustus “also revived various ancient rites which had lapsed with time, such as the augury of the Goddess Safety, the office of Flamen Dailis, the festival of the Lupercalia, the Secular Games, and the festival of the Compitalia”
• • Augustus “more than two thousand” prophecies that “were either anonymous or the work of authors devoid of authority” and he kept the Sibylline Books “which he edited”
• Mark Antony accused Augustus “of unnatural relations with Julius Caesar as the price of his adoption”
• “He also restored the calendar, reformed by Julius Caesar and allowed through negligence to fall into confusion and disorder”
• • “He brought up his daughter and grand-daughters strictly, even having them taught spinning and weaving, and forbidding them from doing or saying anything that could not be recorded openly in the imperial day-book”
• • “But Fortune deserted him at the very moments when he felt happiest and most confident in his offspring and their upbringing. The two Julias, his daughter and granddaughter, being corrupted by every kind of vice,
• And he never spoke of them except as his ‘three tumours’ or his ‘three running sore”
• “As a youth he was reproached with various sexual improprieties. Sextus Pompey taunted him with the charge of effeminacy, while Mark Antony accused him of unnatural relations with Julius Caesar as the price of his adoption”
• "Augustus followed, despite still being weak from severe illness, and despite being shipwrecked on the way, with a minimal escort, over roads menaced by the enemy, so endearing himself greatly to Caesar"
• "Augustus commanded in person in only two foreign campaigns"
• "However, he never warred against any nation without just and necessary cause, and far from wishing to increase his power or win glory at any cost"
• "Augustus refrained from a more severe punishment than selling the captives"
• "he had won peace on land and at sea"
• "He received offices and honours himself, some before the usual age, and some newly created and for life"
• "marching against Rome as the city were his enemy"
• "marching against Rome as the city were his enemy"
• "He also restored the calendar, reformed by Julius Caesar and allowed through negligence to fall into confusion and disorder"