I found Rome a city of brick and left it a city of marble.
Marmoream relinquo, quam latericiam accepi.
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Augustus
First Roman emperor (63 BC-AD 14). Avenger of Caesar, victor at Actium, architect of the Principate. He kept republican forms while concentrating real power, opening the Pax Romana — two centuries of peace.
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