Augustus quotes part 1

'tribunician power was a term formulated by Augustus to express the supremacy of his position. It allowed him to avoid the title of king or dictator'

Tacitus: about Augs' tribunican potestas in 23 BC and why he accepted it

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'The consulship for life was offered to me, but i refused it'

Res Gestae: turned down the power as he would look to powerful and goes against the first ten years of his rule

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'the senate, the equestrian order, and the whole Roman people called me the pater patriae'

Res Gestae: name father of the country/ homeland in 2 BC

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'Tiberius Nero's return from Rhodes...led to an incredible outpouring of national rejoicing'

Velleius 103.2: AD 2, over exaggerated as Augustus was not happy and there were suggested plot to kill him in Rhodes to please the Emperor

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'he brought a prosecution for high treason against Fannius Caepio who had conspired against Augustus with Varus Maurena and secured his condemnation'

Suetonius, Tiberius 8.1: Tiberius was used as a judge to stop the conspirators from harming Augustus or getting people against him

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'it had been generally assumed that if anything happened to Augustus, Marcellus would succeed him'

Velleius 93.1: suggests' Marcellus was the intended heir

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Res Gestae: turned down the power as he would look to powerful and goes against the first ten years of his rule

'The consulship for life was offered to me, but i refused it'

Res Gestae: name father of the country/ homeland in 2 BC

Velleius 103.2: AD 2, over exaggerated as Augustus was not happy and there were suggested plot to kill him in Rhodes to please the Emperor

Suetonius, Tiberius 8.1: Tiberius was used as a judge to stop the conspirators from harming Augustus or getting people against him

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