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primer emperador del Imperio Romano y fundador de la dinastía Julio-Claudia
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“May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and secure basis and thus enjoy the reward which I desire, but only if I may be called the author of the best possible government; and bear with me the hope when I die that the foundations which I have laid for its future government, will stand firm and stable.”
“I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.”
“I had a good mind to discontinue permanently the supply of grain to the city, reliance on which had discouraged Italian agriculture, but refrained because some politician would be bound one day to revive the dole as a means of ingratiating himself with the people.”
“Αἴθ᾽ ὄφελον ἄγαμός τ᾽ ἔμεναι ἄγονός τ᾽ ἀπολέσθαι.”
“At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored liberty to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction. For which service the senate, with complimentary resolutions, enrolled me in its order...”
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Augustus, también conocido como Octavian, fue el fundador del Imperio Romano y el primer emperador romano desde el 27 a. C. hasta su muerte en el 14 d. C. El reinado de Augustus inició un culto imperial y una era de paz imperial cuando el mundo romano estaba en gran medida libre de conflictos armados. El principado, un estilo de gobierno en el que el emperador mostraba una deferencia nominal al Senado, se estableció durante su reinado y duró hasta la Crisis del Siglo III.
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