social & moral Laws Augustus

'thank god our grandfathers' simple lives have not come down to us'

Ovid, Ars Amatoria: Ovid is saying its bad now as in the old times it was more exciting as more people were corrupt and has sex outside of marriage

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'fertile in sin our times stained first the marriage-bed'

Horace, Odes 3.6: they have offended the gods as they have committed adultery

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'Neglected, the gods have visited many woes upon grief-stricken Italy'

Horace, Odes 3.6: the reason the times in Rome have been bad is because they have forgotten the gods

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'prosper the fathers' decrees on women's wedlock, prosper the marriage law, that it may be fruitful of childern'

Horace, Carmen Saeculare: the marriage laws in 18 BC were good and working well

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'to separate against their will a pair of lovers is beyond the power of Jupiter himself. "And mighty Caesar too?"'

Propertius 2.7: the marriage laws did not work and people were against them

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'Mighty in war he maybe; but conquered nations count for nought in lovers' Warfare'

Propertius 2.7: the marriage laws did not work and it suggests and an attempt before in 27 BC

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'failed, however, to popularize marriage and the rising of families-childlessness was too attractive'

Tacitus, Annals: the law in AD 9 did not work and suggests failure

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'increasingly many people were liable to penalties, since every household was exposed to informers' technicalities'

Tacitus, Annals: talking about delatores who tried to expose people to get their land and money if convicted

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'this did not satisfy the knights, who demonstrated against the law at a publicentertainment, demanding its repeal'

Suetonius DA. 34: the Lex Julia de maritandis onbuslate was not popular with the equites who always have a good relationship with Aug

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'thrown a bridle on licence'

Horace, Odes 4.15: Augustus has control over the social and moral laws

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