Augustus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...and fire protection. He was munificent to arts and letters, and he was a close friend of Maecenas and a patron of Vergil, Ovid, Livy, and Horace. He was succeeded by his stepson Tiberius . Bibliography See V. Ehrenberg and A. H. M. Jones, Documents...