Suetonius- -‘Augustus never wantonly invaded any country, and felt no temptation to increase the boundaries of the empire or enhance his military glory’
-The Battle of Phillipi was Octavian’s ‘most dangerous battle’
-Lollius’ defeat was of ‘ignominious rather than strategic importance’ whereas Varus’ ‘nearly wrecked the empire’. Augustus would shout ‘Varus, give me back my legions!’
-Believed that ‘no battle should ever be fought unless the hope of victory was clearly greater than the fear of defeat’
Res Gestae: ‘The whole of Italy of its own free will swore allegiance to me and demanded me as the leader in the way in which I was victorious at Actium’
‘Italy too has twenty- eight colonies founded by my authority which were densely populated during my lifetime’
‘Recovered all the provinces beyond the Adriatic sea towards the east’ and Sicily and Sardinia.
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