Rome's Western Empire formally collapsed in AD 476, when its last emperor, Romulus Augustus, took early retirement in the Campanian countryside. |
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The Russian envoy procured an analogous sum of 5000 chervonets from Augustus III for the Polish Confederates. |
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In the 1840s, Augustus stood bail for select offenders and promised to monitor their activities and report to the judge. |
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Julius Caesar's assassination in 44 BC was followed by the development of imperial rule, headed by the first emperor, Augustus. |
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As they talked, one of his chickens scratched up a coin that the young Swede recognised as bearing the head of the Emperor Augustus. |
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Significantly, Augustus moved the Sibylline books from the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus to the temple of Apollo Palatinus. |
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A grateful Senate voted him the cognomen Augustus, by which name he is generally known in the history books. |
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Augustus Caesar had been imperator of the Roman Empire for more than twenty years. |
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Romulus and Aeneas were also considered ancestors of the gens Julia to which Augustus belonged. |
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Augustus John, who had a certain talent but nothing to say, so admired Romany culture that he dressed like one. |
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The Emperor Augustus had built a round shrine in front of it to put a Roman hallmark on Greece. |
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The general impression is that agricultural expansion began under Augustus and flagged somewhat during the troubled period following his death. |
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Actually, Augustus Moore Herring was quite a pioneer during the very earliest days of heavier-than-air flight. |
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Roman trade coins, ranging from the silver dinarii, issued by Augustus, to the gold aurei, minted by Tiberius and Nero, are a highlight. |
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Later he married Claudia Pulchra, the grand-niece of Augustus, and was able to acquire some political influence. |
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It was originally constructed as an orangery for Augustus the Strong who was an avid art collector. |
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Even better than that of the Victorian painter Augustus Leopold Egg, which was my favourite name up to now. |
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In 18 he was given tribunician power for five years, a power held otherwise only by Augustus, and his imperium was renewed for the same period. |
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His fame rests on his Annals and his Histories which related events from the death of Augustus to the Flavian period. |
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Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus, popularly known simply as Tiberius, was the Roman emperor at the time of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. |
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This danger was instrumental in throwing Richard into the arms of Philip Augustus, who three years earlier had acceded to the throne of France. |
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She was raised in a castle, where Augustus John once famously found her father reading The Times in a suit of armour. |
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A bronze bust of one of Tenby's most famous sons, Augustus John, has just been bought by the town's museum and art gallery. |
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The Otago University's registrar, Augustus Hamilton, had pieced together a skeleton of the extinct bird and even added feathers. |
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Although Augustus cleverly refused all titles but principate, the Romans did make a god of him after death. |
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Gaius Octavius, as Augustus was originally known, was 18 when in 43 BC his great-uncle, the dictator Julius Caesar, was assassinated. |
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With Augustus de Morgan, Peirce is one of the founders of the logic of relatives. |
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It was built by the duumvir Marcus Tullius at his expense in honour of the Emperor Augustus. |
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Augustus, also known as Augustus the Strong, was a party-boy, and loved any excuse to celebrate. |
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In 1937 and 1938 marked the bimillenary of the birth of Caesar Augustus. |
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Never have two people been more in love than Augustus Waters and Hazel Grace Lancaster, and now one of them is about to die. |
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Given these emphases on significant dates, it may not be coincidental that the Ara Pacis was begun during the year in which Augustus reached the climacteric age of fifty. |
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The basic coinage instituted by Augustus comprised the copper quadrans, brass semis, copper as, brass dupondius and sestertius, silver denarius, and gold aureus. |
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The town fortified under Augustus expanded greatly in the Flavian period. |
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In logic, De Morgan's laws, named for nineteenth century logician and mathematician Augustus De Morgan, are two powerful rules of Boolean algebra and set theory. |
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Augustus III was of a religious turn of mind, and he had Meissen produce sacred art like Kandler's Crucifixion, one of the largest porcelain groups. |
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Delegation was essential in so unwieldy an entity, and, like his predecessors, Augustus appointed senatorial legates and equestrian prefects to serve his imperium. |
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The peaceful panels with Numa and Pax thus frame the south processional frieze, which includes Augustus with priests and lictors, followed by members of the imperial family. |
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He showed that similar horoscopes in the Magian or Chaldaean system had been described in ancient times for Roman emperors such as Augustus, Tiberius, and Hadrian. |
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When crown prince Friedrich Augustus of Saxony married Maria Josepha of Austria in 1719, the party raged for a full 28 days. |
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A new record price was set for a silver denarius of the emperor Augustus. |
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Is he to be anathematised for rebelling against his father, Henry II, in alliance with Philip Augustus, destined to prove his bitterest and most unscrupulous opponent? |
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The last news item on the car radio as we turned off the Elgin road was about plans to turn the former monastery at Fort Augustus into a theme park. |
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Caesar, Augustus and their successors sought to ensure a steady supply of peasant soldiers for the legions by settling veterans in colonies outside Italy. |
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A coin of Augustus shows what is presumably a square superstructure, with arches on the two faces in view, pilasters or columns, and an entablature but no roof. |
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Although he adopted the name Augustus upon his accession, he is better remembered by his derisive nickname Augustulus. |
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The Romans attached large swathes of this region to neighboring provinces Belgica and Aquitania, particularly under Augustus. |
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After Tincomarus, the emperor Augustus chose to recognize his brother, Eppillus, as the next client king. |
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After looting and burning the city Richard established his base there, but this created tension between Richard and Philip Augustus. |
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As emperor, Domitian assumed totalitarian characteristics, thought he could be a new Augustus, and tried to make a personal cult of himself. |
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This was the first time that senators chose the emperor since Octavian was honored with the titles of princeps and Augustus. |
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From the death of Augustus in AD 14 until about 200, Roman authors emphasized style and tried new and startling ways of expression. |
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Under Claudius, the empire invaded Britannia, its first major expansion since Augustus. |
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His mother was born in Panama, the daughter of Richard Augustus Packer and Gladys McGowan Campbell. |
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By the time of Augustus up to 120 ships were setting sail every year from Myos Hormos to India, trading in a diverse variety of goods. |
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Every Emperor of Rome adopted his name, Caesar Augustus, which gradually lost its character as a name and eventually became a title. |
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Horace dedicated an ode to the victory, while the monument Trophy of Augustus near Monaco was built to honor the occasion. |
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However, Maria Brosius explains that Augustus used the return of the standards as propaganda symbolizing the submission of Parthia to Rome. |
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Postumus Agrippa was murdered at his place of exile either shortly before or after the death of Augustus. |
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On 19 August AD 14, Augustus died while visiting Nola where his father had died. |
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It was proclaimed that Augustus joined the company of the gods as a member of the Roman pantheon. |
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Historians are able to analyze existing letters penned by Augustus to others for additional facts or clues about his personal life. |
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The immediate successors of Augustus indulged in appalling cruelties towards senators and towards possible competitors for the purple. |
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Among Zelenka's four requiems the most important is the last in D major for the exequies of King Augustus II the Strong. |
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The nomenclature of Julius Caesar and the later Augustus in the triumviral period. |
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Since Habinnas is a priest of the College of Augustus, his scatological language vulgarises the priesthood. |
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Nothing easier. I received not long ago a map from my friend, Augustus Petermann, at Leipzig. Nothing could be more apropos. |
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There went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. |
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Her parents were friends of other members of the Bloomsbury Group, including Augustus John and Virginia Woolf. |
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In the arts, siblings Gwen and Augustus John were both born in Pembrokeshire. |
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With the outbreak of the First World War, matters deteriorated seriously, and in 1918 the family sold Lundy to Augustus Langham Christie. |
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The long and triumphant reign of its first emperor, Augustus, began a golden age of peace and prosperity. |
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Under the reign of Tiberius Caesar Augustus, the Amber Road was straightened and paved according to the prevailing urban standards. |
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Caesar's adopted heir Octavian, later known as Augustus, rose to sole power after defeating his opponents in the civil war. |
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The Roman emperor Augustus began a cult of personality of Caesar, which described Augustus as Caesar's political heir. |
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Philip II Augustus played a significant role in one of the greatest centuries of innovation in construction and education in France. |
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Following the Emperor Augustus transforming the Republic into the Roman Empire, Rome gained control of most of the Mediterranean. |
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The inhabitants petitioned Augustus for help, who sent troops to curb the rabbit population with the help of ferrets. |
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In particular, the versions of Greek myths in Ovid's Metamorphoses, written during the reign of Augustus, came to be regarded as canonical. |
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Later, in 27 BC, during the reign of Emperor Augustus, the province of Gallia Aquitania was created. |
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Augustus Smith chose Tresco as the site of his home because the site was more or less central in relation to the rest of the islands. |
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Martin resigned in November 1837 and Augustus Smith organised the completion. |
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Mount Augustus, claimed to be the world's largest monolith, is located in Western Australia. |
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Augustus planned in 6 AD to destroy the kingdom of Maroboduus, which he considered to be too dangerous for the Romans. |
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The wars began in the last years of the reign of Augustus, first emperor of Rome. |
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Augustus died an old but respected man in the year 14 and was celebrated with much pomp and splendor. |
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Augustus had planned to incorporate all of central Germania in one province, Germania Magna. |
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Romulus Augustus, the last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire, surrendered to the Germanic King Odoacer. |
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The unified list states the magistrates for each AUC from the first year of the first king to the death of Augustus. |
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The tablets give an account of festivals, and also of the triumphs of Augustus and Tiberius. |
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The long wars of conquest lasted two centuries, and only by the time of Augustus did Rome managed to control Hispania Ulterior. |
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Augustus prepared to hand down his signet ring to his favored general Agrippa. |
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It took several years for Augustus to develop the framework within which a formally republican state could be led under his sole rule. |
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To a large extent, the public were aware of the vast financial resources that Augustus commanded. |
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In the case of Augustus, however, it became an almost regnal title for a leader who was first in charge. |
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Feeling pressure from his core group of adherents, Augustus turned to the Senate for help. |
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This was a surprise to many who believed Augustus would have named an heir to his position as an unofficial emperor. |
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Although Augustus had resigned as consul, he desired to retain his consular imperium not just in his provinces but throughout the empire. |
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The situation was so serious that Augustus himself appeared at the trial, even though he had not been called as a witness. |
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This in effect gave Augustus constitutional power superior to all other proconsuls in the empire. |
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For some years, Augustus had been awarded tribunicia sacrosanctitas, the immunity given to a Tribune of the Plebs. |
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Legally, it was closed to patricians, a status that Augustus had acquired some years earlier when adopted by Julius Caesar. |
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Some time prior to 1 September 22 BC, a certain Castricius provided Augustus with information about a conspiracy led by Fannius Caepio. |
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Although the most powerful individual in the Roman Empire, Augustus wished to embody the spirit of Republican virtue and norms. |
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However, for his rule of Rome and establishing the principate, Augustus has also been subjected to criticism throughout the ages. |
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However, Augustus had put the state in order not by making himself king or dictator, but by creating the Principate. |
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The story of his career shows that Augustus was indeed ruthless, cruel, and ambitious for himself. |
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The measures of taxation in the reign of Augustus were determined by population census, with fixed quotas for each province. |
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Marble could be found in buildings of Rome before Augustus, but it was not extensively used as a building material until the reign of Augustus. |
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He also built the Temple of Caesar, the Baths of Agrippa, and the Forum of Augustus with its Temple of Mars Ultor. |
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Even his Mausoleum of Augustus was built before his death to house members of his family. |
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Her maternal grandparents were the consul Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor and Octavia the Younger, sister of Augustus. |
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The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest was keenly felt by Augustus, darkening his remaining years. |
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Around fifty structures were erected, restored or completed, achievements second only to those of Augustus. |
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As Emperor, he saw himself as the new Augustus, an enlightened despot destined to guide the Roman Empire into a new era of Flavian renaissance. |
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The pagan emperors' tombs of the Mausoleum of Augustus and Castel Sant'Angelo were rifled and the ashes scattered. |
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As a young man he lived in Italy and enjoyed the favour of the Emperor Augustus. |
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The empire Augustus ruled was a shadow of its former self and had shrunk significantly over the previous 80 years. |
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Tacitus even wrote disparagingly of Augustus the most celebrated and beloved of the emperors. |
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We also know that he was on good terms with Augustus and he also encouraged Claudius to write history. |
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Livy believed that there had been a moral decline in Rome, and he lacked the confidence that Augustus could reverse it. |
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Rather, he gives a brief synopsis of the key points before he begins a lengthier summary of the reign of Augustus. |
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One of the Roman victims was the poet Ovid, who lived during the reign of Augustus. |
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Pompey, Julius Caesar and Augustus all visited the tomb in Alexandria, where Augustus, allegedly, accidentally knocked the nose off. |
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Also shown are Hammurabi, Solomon, Confucius, Augustus, Napoleon, William Blackstone, Charlemagne and others. |
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Augustus Taber Murray explains that the depiction of a character was limited by the circumstances under which Greek tragedies were presented. |
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Augustus Taber Murray also examines the importance and degree of interaction between plot and character. |
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The council argued that none of George Augustus Frederic II's wives was Miskito and that none of their children was eligible as a result. |
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The election of William Henry Clarence as new chief, George Augustus Frederic II's nephew by his second sister, was not recognized by Nicaragua. |
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Although the dynasty's founder Commius had become a foe of Caesar's, his sons submitted to Augustus as client kings. |
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Augustus succeeded where his adoptive father failed and the pass became Roman. |
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Macclesfield is also home to an Augustus Pugin church, St Alban's on Chester Road. |
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Lord Brownlow took action against Augustus Smith and the court case lasted until 1870 when it ended with the complete vindication of Smith. |
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A big cake requires a big festival, and Augustus was happy to comply. |
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Along with the notice, he included a portrait of himself in the robes of an Augustus. |
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In either case, it was far too early for such an account, and may have only served to remind Augustus that Claudius was Antony's descendant. |
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He deified his paternal grandmother Livia to highlight her position as wife of the divine Augustus. |
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Under Claudius, the Empire underwent its first major expansion since the reign of Augustus. |
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He allowed the Senate to issue its own bronze coinage for the first time since Augustus. |
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Nero was more popular with the general public as the grandson of Germanicus and the direct descendant of Augustus. |
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Claudius' ashes were interred in the Mausoleum of Augustus on 24 October 54 AD, after a funeral in the manner of Augustus. |
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Geoffrey of Monmouth says he was brought up at the court of Augustus and willingly paid tribute to Rome. |
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Before dying, he declared his support for raising Constantine to the rank of full Augustus. |
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The Alamannic king Chrocus, a barbarian taken into service under Constantius, then proclaimed Constantine as Augustus. |
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Licinius, one of Galerius' old military companions, was appointed Augustus in the western regions. |
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Gratian appointed a new Augustus, a proven general from Hispania called Theodosius. |
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Theodosius restored Valentinian II, still a very young man, as Augustus in the West. |
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The bickering and simmering tensions between Henry and Richard were cleverly exploited by the new French king, Philip Augustus. |
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Philip Augustus regarded Geoffrey as a close friend, and would have welcomed him as a successor to Henry. |
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There is nothing can be added unto the daintinesse of Fulvius wives death, who was so inward with Augustus. |
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Barry was assisted by Augustus Pugin, a leading authority on Gothic architecture and style, who designed the interior of the Palace. |
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Barry was a classical architect, but he was aided by the Gothic architect Augustus Pugin. |
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Mary's designed by Augustus Welby Pugin and the Coptic Cathedral located in Fenham. |
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The Roman Empire emerged with the end of the Republic and the dictatorship of Augustus Caesar. |
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Officially, the government was republican, but Augustus assumed absolute powers. |
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Poets like Virgil, Horace, Ovid and Rufus developed a rich literature, and were close friends of Augustus. |
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Augustus also continued the shifts on the calendar promoted by Caesar, and the month of August is named after him. |
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Augustus brought a peaceful and thriving era to Rome, known as Pax Augusta or Pax Romana. |
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Influenced by his wife, Livia Drusilla, Augustus appointed her son from another marriage, Tiberius, as his heir. |
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Diocletian did not use a disguised form of Republic, as the other emperors since Augustus had done. |
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Unhappy with this, their chieftain Odoacer defeated and killed Orestes, invaded Ravenna and dethroned Romulus Augustus, son of Orestes. |
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At the end of the Civil War, Augustus reorganized Roman military forces, discharging soldiers and disbanding legions. |
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Augustus Montague Toplady, Rowland, Richard Hill and others were engaged on one side, while Wesley and Fletcher stood on the other. |
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Dio Cassius relates that Augustus personally accepted the post of superintendent. |
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The Emperors who succeeded Augustus exercised a vigilant control over the condition of the public highways. |
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The Cursus publicus, founded by Augustus, carried the mail of officials by relay throughout the Roman road system. |
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Under the reign of the Emperor Augustus, Horace continued the tradition of shorter poems, with his Odes and Epodes. |
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The armies of Field Marshal George Wade and of William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, were approaching. |
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Similar orders must have been received by the Highland units at Fort Augustus. |
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On 17 May three battalions of regulars and eight Highland companies reoccupied Fort Augustus. |
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In total, over 20,000 head of livestock, sheep, and goats were driven off and sold at Fort Augustus, where the soldiers split the profits. |
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It was instituted by the emperor Augustus, and was accompanied by a series of brutal military campaigns. |
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A Prussian scheme for compensating Frederick Augustus with Bohemia in exchange for Saxony obviously presupposed further spoliation of Austria. |
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The Roman Republic ended in 27 BC, when Augustus proclaimed the Roman Empire. |
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Introduced by Augustus John, Caitlin's lover, they met in The Wheatsheaf pub on Rathbone Place in London's West End. |
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It was inspired by the ideas of architect Augustus Pugin, writer John Ruskin, and designer William Morris. |
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Though the old constitutional machinery remained in place, Augustus came to predominate it. |
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Although the republic stood in name, contemporaries of Augustus knew it was just a veil and that Augustus had all meaningful authority in Rome. |
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The success of Augustus in establishing principles of dynastic succession was limited by his outliving a number of talented potential heirs. |
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With the rise of Augustus, contemporary Latin authors such as Vergil and Livy also became part of the curriculum. |
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The Secular Ode of Horace, commissioned by Augustus, was performed publicly in 17 BC by a mixed children's choir. |
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Loch Ness has one island, Cherry Island, at the southwestern end of the loch, near Fort Augustus. |
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Augustus Caesar once boasted that he had turned Rome from a city of bricks to a city of marble. |
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The Edict was in effect directed against Maximinus Daia, the Caesar in the East who was at that time styling himself as Augustus. |
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Vernon was godfather to Dylan's son Llewelyn, the others being Richard Hughes and Augustus John. |
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Augustus John and his student James Dickson Innes spent two years painting in the Arenig valley around 1910, especially the mountain Arenig Fawr. |
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Augustus John's promiscuity gave rise to rumours that he had fathered as many as 100 children. |
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Although she was overshadowed during her lifetime by her brother Augustus John, her reputation has grown steadily since her death. |
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Like her younger brother, Augustus, who had begun his studies there in 1894, she studied figure drawing under Henry Tonks. |
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During this period, she and Augustus shared living quarters, and further reduced their expenses by subsisting on a diet of nuts and fruit. |
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Augustus John and his sister Gwen John lived mostly in London and Paris. |
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Locks on Caledonian Canal in Fort Augustus, Loch Ness in the background. |
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Another figure was the youthful Edward Augustus Freeman, later celebrated as a medieval historian, and, from 1884, Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford. |
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Tiberius and Augustus had both left gifts to the army and guard in their wills, and upon Caligula's death the same would have been expected, even if no will existed. |
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However, according to the 1st century AD historian Marcus Velleius Paterculus, Arminius sent Varus's head to Maroboduus, but the king of the Marcomanni sent it to Augustus. |
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By law, Augustus held a collection of powers granted to him for life by the Senate, including supreme military command, and those of tribune and censor. |
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Augustus had performed the same games less than a century prior. |
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Tresco is famous for its botanical gardens established by Augustus Smith in the 19th century, and his descendant Robert Dorrien Smith now presides over the island. |
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The Corinthian order of architectural style originating from ancient Greece was the dominant architectural style in the age of Augustus and the imperial phase of Rome. |
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Augustus planned invasions in 34, 27 and 25 BC, but circumstances were never favourable, and the relationship between Britain and Rome settled into one of diplomacy and trade. |
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Strabo also mentions British kings who sent embassies to Augustus and Augustus's own Res Gestae refers to two British kings he received as refugees. |
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Among the best known of many surviving portraits are the Augustus of Prima Porta, the image on the Ara Pacis, and the Via Labicana Augustus, which shows him as a priest. |
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Roman triumphal practices changed significantly at the start of the imperial period when the first Roman Emperor Augustus decreed that only emperors would be granted triumphs. |
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After the harsh methods employed in consolidating his control, the change in name served to demarcate his benign reign as Augustus from his reign of terror as Octavian. |
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The process was completed in 27 BC when the Roman Emperor Augustus annexed the rest of Greece and constituted it as the senatorial province of Achaea. |
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Aside from her sister, she also had two brothers, Thornton and Augustus. |
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The word Caesar was merely a cognomen for one branch of the Julian family, yet Augustus transformed Caesar into a new family line that began with him. |
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The tetrarchy collapsed, however, in 313 and a few years later Constantine I reunited the two administrative divisions of the Empire as sole Augustus. |
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Constantius died in 421, after only seven months as Augustus. |
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Out of this arose a sharp controversy with Augustus de Morgan. |
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Initially Henry and Philip Augustus had enjoyed a good relationship. |
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Despite attempts to divide the two, Henry and Philip Augustus agreed a joint alliance, even though this cost the French king the support of Flanders and Champagne. |
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Soon after his bout of illness subsided, Augustus gave up his consulship. |
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King John lost all his territories in mainland Normandy in 1204 to King Philip II Augustus, but retained possession of Jersey and the other Channel Islands. |
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He was defended by Lucius Lucinius Varro Murena, who told the trial that his client had received specific instructions from Augustus, ordering him to attack the client state. |
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Augustus Pugin was instrumental in helping Barry win the Commission. |
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After the setbacks of the third century, Trajan, together with Augustus, became in the Later Roman Empire the paragon of the most positive traits of the Imperial order. |
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The Clock Tower was designed by Augustus Pugin and built after his death. |
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The Roman army hailed Alexander as emperor on March 13, 222, immediately instilling him with the titles of Augustus, pater patriae, and pontifex maximus. |
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The Senate in Rome switched allegiance, gave both Gordian and Gordian II the title of Augustus, and set about rousing the provinces in support of the pair. |
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From 1858 Augustus Duncombe worked successfully to revive the cathedral. |
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Augustus intended to extend the Roman Empire to the whole known world, and in his reign, Rome conquered Cantabria Aquitania, Raetia, Dalmatia, Illyricum and Pannonia. |
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In 1224, the French poet Henry d'Andeli wrote of the great wine tasting competition that Philip II Augustus commissioned, the Battle of the Wines. |
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With the powers of a censor, Augustus appealed to virtues of Roman patriotism by banning all attire but the classic toga while entering the Forum. |
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It was designed by Augustus Pugin in 1847 in the Gothic Revival style. |
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During this construction, Augustus created two more public libraries. |
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Augustus was granted sole imperium within the city of Rome itself, in addition to being granted proconsular imperium maius and tribunician authority for life. |
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All armed forces in the city had formerly been under the control of the urban praetors and consuls, but this situation now placed them under the sole authority of Augustus. |
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This meant that Augustus was the only individual able to receive a triumph, a tradition that began with Romulus, Rome's first King and first triumphant general. |
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This and his actions in promoting working class education are commemorated by the award of the Augustus Smith scholarship for state school students in Berkhamsted. |
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It was begun by Cleopatra VII of the Ptolemaic dynasty, the last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt, to honour her dead lover Julius Caesar, then converted by Augustus to his own cult. |
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The two kings stayed on in Sicily for a while, but this resulted in increasing tensions between them and their men, with Philip Augustus plotting with Tancred against Richard. |
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A final reason for the Second Settlement was to give the Principate constitutional stability and staying power in case something happened to Princeps Augustus. |
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With Rome's civil wars at an end, Augustus was also able to create a standing army for the Roman Empire, fixed at a size of 28 legions of about 170,000 soldiers. |
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Augustus instituted the first permanent medical corps in the Roman army. |
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We talk of genius still, but with thought how changed! The genius of Augustus was a tutelary demon, to be sworn by and to receive offerings on an altar as a deity. |
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The contemporary Annals of Ulster describe him as the Augustus of north-western Europe, and the Irish chronicler Marianus Scotus claims that Brian was slain while at prayer. |
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In 1749, Reynolds met Commodore Augustus Keppel, who invited him to join HMS Centurion, of which he had command, on a voyage to the Mediterranean. |
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It had been carried out by Thomas Powell, a clerk, who was on friendly terms with Dickens and who had acted as mentor to Augustus when he started work. |
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Among the actors which Yates directed were David Suchet, Cillian Murphy and Miranda Otto in their roles as Augustus Melmotte, Paul Montague and Mrs. |
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The Jacobite army then turned north, losing men and failing to take Stirling Castle or Fort William but taking Fort Augustus and Fort George in Inverness by early April. |
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In the year 6 Augustus established the aerarium militare, donating 170 million sesterces to the new military treasury that provided for both active and retired soldiers. |
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The Channel Islands remained part of the Duchy of Normandy until 1204 when King Philip II Augustus of France conquered the duchy from King John of England. |
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The former in 27 BC became princeps civitatis and got the title of Augustus, founding the principate, a diarchy between the princeps and the senate. |
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The death of George Augustus Frederic II in 1865, after only half that time had passed, led to a dispute between Nicaragua and the reserve's government. |
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Augustus was born at his parents' house in Bloomsbury, London, England. |
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The hereditary elector of Saxony, Augustus III, was also elective King of Poland as Augustus III, but the two territories were physically separated by Brandenburg and Silesia. |
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This campaign, led by Tiberius and Quaestor Legatus Germanicus under Emperor Augustus, was one of the most difficult, and most crucial, in the history of the Roman Empire. |
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Some attempt was made under Augustus to introduce the Latin language to the island, but Sicily was allowed to remain largely Greek in a cultural sense. |
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The two theories are that they were in or part of the regia, or palace, of the College of Pontiffs, or that they were on a commemorative arch Augustus had constructed. |
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He believed that Augustus was necessary, but only as a short term measure. |
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Following the reorganisation of the Roman provinces in Germany in 16 BCE, Augustus decided that the Treveri should become part of the province of Belgica. |
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Greek geographer Strabo claimed that the Dacians and Getae had been able to muster a combined army of 200,000 men during Strabo's era, the time of Roman emperor Augustus. |
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Beside streamlining the army, Augustus also regulated the soldiers' pay. |
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The need for a pool of men to fill the consular positions forced Augustus to remodel the suffect consulate, allowing more than the two elected for the ordinary consulate. |
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Barry's entry, number 64, for which Augustus Pugin helped prepare the competition drawings, won the commission in January 1836 to design the new Palace of Westminster. |
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His political career was boosted and his cursus honorum finished as early as 13 BC, when he was elected consul with Tiberius, the stepson and successor of Augustus. |
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