Status Updates From Augustus

“With those legions, he (Antonius) would be invincible; and the world would lie like an unguarded treasure house before his plundering ambition. We simply faced the death of Rome for which Cesar had given his life.”

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“ how do you oppose a foe who is wholly irrational and unpredictable-and yet who out of animal energy, and the accident of circumstance, hesitate to the most frightening power?”

"'i did not have a son,' he said. 'i had only a daughter, and Rome.'"