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Meditations: A New Translation (Modern Library)

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Mary Beard on Caesar, Augustus & Zuckerberg

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Augustus is dead. Long live Augustus!

Mary Beard • SPQR

Augustus further signaled his devotion by minting an aureus, a type of gold Roman coin, with his personal branding of festina lente . On the side that didn’t include his face — because what leader isn’t going to slap his visage on some coin? — he imprinted the image of a crab hoisting a butterfly. The butterfly represented speed, the crab caution a... See more

Festina lente: A Roman emperor's guide to getting stuff done

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This man saved Ancient Rome with a single speech. He also: • Refused a $5 million bribe from Julius Caesar • Invented techniques used by lawyers in the Supreme Court today Here's his forgotten wisdom (that could end global conflicts overnight): https://t.co/pmGqQDLhVP

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Roman prefect of Egypt, Gaius Galerius.

Emily Wilson • The Greatest Empire: A Life of Seneca

The emperor Tiberius summed up the basic ethics of Roman rule rather well when he said, in reaction to some excessive profits turned in from the provinces, ‘I want my sheep shorn, not shaven’.