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Headword:
*au)/goustos
*kai=sar
Adler number: alpha,4412
Translated headword: Augustus Caesar
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Also called Sebastos and Octavianus, [wrote] On his own life and deeds [in] 13 books,[1] and a tragedy of Ajax and Achilles.[2]
"Augustus, in accordance with his own decree, counts individually all the inhabitants of Roman [lands], wanting to know how great a multitude they are. And the inhabitants of the Roman [empire] are found to be 4,101,017 men."[3]
Greek Original:*au)/goustos *kai=sar, o( kai\ *sebasto\s kai\ *)oktabi+ano\s e)piklhqei\s, *peri\ tou= i)di/ou bi/ou kai\ tw=n pra/cewn bibli/a ig#, kai\ tragw|di/an *ai)/anto/s te kai\ *)axille/ws. o(/ti *au)/goustos *kai=sar do/can au)tw=| pa/ntas tou\s oi)kh/toras *(rwmai/wn kata\ pro/swpon a)riqmei=, boulo/menos gnw=nai po/son e)sti\ plh=qos. kai\ eu(ri/skontai oi( th\n *(rwmai/wn oi)kou=ntes ui# muria/des kai\ #22aiz# a)/ndres.
Notes:
See also
alpha 4413.
[1] Again at
kappa 1197.
[2] See
Suetonius,
Augustus 83 (web address 1), where the story is told that, when Augustus was asked what his Ajax was doing, he replied, "He fell on his sponge".
[3] On the Augustan census figures see generally P.A. Brunt,
Italian Manpower 225 BC-AD 14 (Oxford 1971) 113-120. The present figure -- in this unidentifiable quotation -- is in general line with the ones in the
Res Gestae and elsewhere (4,063,000 in 28 BCE; 4,233,000 in 8 BCE; 4,937,000 or [Fasti Ostienses] 4,100,900 in 14 CE) but is, as we see, fascinatingly more precise.
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; historiography; history; mythology; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 23 July 2000@20:19:27.
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