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Imperator Caesar Divi Filius Augustus
Augustus
also: Augustus, the deified Augustus, Divus Augustus
First Roman emperor (r. 27 BC – AD 14). Outliving his intended heirs, he propped his house by adoption and bore his losses without complaint against the gods.
Reading notes
- The Pumpkinification of the Divine Claudius §1 Augustus
First Roman emperor (r. 27 BC–AD 14), deified after death; the model of a genuinely consecrated princeps.
- Consolation to Marcia §2 Augustus
The first Roman emperor (r. 27 BC – AD 14).
- Consolation to Polybius §12 deified Augustus
Augustus, first Roman emperor (r. 27 BC – AD 14), consecrated as a god after death; cited as a model both of bereavement endured and of a ruler outliving his heirs.
- On Benefits §1.15.5 Augustus
The first Roman emperor (r. 27 BC–AD 14), here 'the deified Augustus,' whose judgment is set above Claudius's bounty.
- On Benefits §2.11.1 Give me back to Caesar
The Caesar here is Octavian (the future Augustus), one of the triumvirs; the man saved during the proscriptions would rather face death again than endure his rescuer's arrogance.
- On the Shortness of Life §4.2 Augustus
The first emperor (r. 27 BC–AD 14); Seneca's prime example of supreme power forever longing for a leisure it never reaches.
- On Mercy §1.9 the deified Augustus
First Roman emperor (r. 27 BC – AD 14) and Nero's great-great-grandfather; Seneca's pattern of a ruler who passed from the bloodshed of the civil wars to a clemency that secured his throne and his deification.
- On Anger §2.5 Augustus
The first Roman emperor (63 BC–AD 14); Volesus served as his proconsul of Asia.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §19.114.6 the absent Caesar
The young Octavian, the future Augustus; in his absence during the civil wars Maecenas governed Rome and Italy, so that the army's watchword was sought from him.
- Natural Questions §1.1.3 the deified Augustus's passing
The death of the first emperor (AD 14), after which he was enrolled among the gods; Seneca lists portents attending it.
- Octavia §490 first Augustus
Augustus (r. 27 BC-AD 14), first emperor and 'father of his country,' deified after death; Seneca holds him up as the model of clemency, though Nero answers with his proscriptions.