. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. ough-out the world descended to the tomb. C M 6 & § I ?< s ?gS! II a <! g rHOJ O ^ Co®3 QC C Ë ._E MS W <!0 ., CHAPTER LXIX. THE LAST TEAES OF AUGUSTUS, AND THE SUCCESSION TO THE EMPIEE. I.— The Imperial Family. LIKE Louis XIV., Augustus ended his reign in mourning andsolitude: it is tlie fate of lives that have been too had seen die, one after another, all those who were bound to him by ties ofblood, friendship, ormilitary fame, allwho were the supportor the honor of hisI admini
. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. ough-out the world descended to the tomb. C M 6 & § I ?< s ?gS! II a <! g rHOJ O ^ Co®3 QC C Ë ._E MS W <!0 ., CHAPTER LXIX. THE LAST TEAES OF AUGUSTUS, AND THE SUCCESSION TO THE EMPIEE. I.— The Imperial Family. LIKE Louis XIV., Augustus ended his reign in mourning andsolitude: it is tlie fate of lives that have been too had seen die, one after another, all those who were bound to him by ties ofblood, friendship, ormilitary fame, allwho were the supportor the honor of hisI administration,— Marcellus, his nephewand son-in-law (23B. c), his sister Octa-. via (11), Vergil (19),Agrippa (12), Drusus[[)), Maecenas, and^^^ Horace (8). Eight^*\ years before the com-j ^ ^ mencement of the N,, ^ Christian era there,^:iV^ remained to him onlythe children born ofhis daughter Juliasmarriage with Agrippa, and the children of Drusus and Tiberius. The Euiperor was much attached to his grandsons. Thecare that lie ])estowcd upon iheir education and the early honors.
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