AUGUSTUS
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ROMAN LIFE UNDER THE CÆSARS.
By Émile Thomas. With Numerous Illustrations.Small demy 8vo, cloth, 7s. 6d.
ROME AND POMPEII.
By Gaston Boissier. Translated by D. HavelockFisher. With Maps and Plans. Large crown 8vo,cloth, 7s. 6d.
THE COUNTRY OF HORACE AND VIRGIL.
By Gaston Boissier. Translated by D. HavelockFisher. Large crown 8vo, cloth, 7s. 6d.
ROME: From the Earliest Times to the End ofthe Republic.
By Arthur Gilman, M.A. 3rd Edition. With aMap and Numerous Illustrations. Large crown 8vo,cloth, 5s. (“The Story of the Nations.”)
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AUGUSTUS
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE
FOUNDER OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
(B.C. 63-A.D. 14)
BY
E. S. SHUCKBURGH, Litt.D.
LATE FELLOW OF EMMANUEL COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
ILLUSTRATED
LONDON: T. FISHER UNWIN
PATERNOSTER SQUARE · 1903
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Augustus has been much less attractive to biographers thanIulius; perhaps because the soldier is more interesting thanthe statesman; perhaps because the note of genius conspicuousin the Uncle was wanting in the Nephew. Yet Augustus wasthe most successful ruler known to us. He found his world,as it seemed, on the verge of complete collapse. He evokedorder out of chaos; got rid one after the other of everyelement of opposition; established what was practically a newform of government without too violent a breach with thepast; breathed fresh meaning into old names and institutions,and could stand forth as a reformer rather than an innovator,while even those who lost most by the change were soothedinto submission without glaring loss of self-respect. He workedceaselessly