“ Have I have played my part well in the comedy of life? If so, clap your hands and dismiss me from the stage with applause. Augustus
“ If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way without… Augustus
“ If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage. Augustus
“ At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored liberty4 to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction. Augustus
