>After forming the Second Triumvirate, with Mark Antony and Lepidus, he put an end to their war with Brutus and Cassius, fighting twice at Philippi, though weakened by illness. He was driven from camp in the first battle, and escaped narrowly by fleeing to Antony’s wing of the army.>After his victory in the second, he showed no clemency, sending Brutus’ head to Rome to be flung at the feet of Caesar’s statue, and ranting at the noblest of his prisoners, with no insult lacking.>When one man begged humbly for right of burial, he is said to have replied: ‘The crows will soon settle that!’ And when a father and son pleaded for their lives, it is claimed that he told them to cast lots or play mora (a finger-game) to decide which should be spared. Augustus watched as both perished. The father was executed, having offered to sacrifice his own life for his son’s, whereupon the son committed suicide.>It was because of this that the rest of the captives, including Marcus Favonius, who famously imitated Cato the Younger in everything, saluted Mark Antony respectfully as Imperator, for his victory, as they were led off in chains, but reviled Augustus to his face with the foulest of abuse.https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/Suetonius2.php
Autocrats not being scum: challenge impossible
>>18655186Ca va sans dire: he was a manlet
>>18655186roman and greek historians of the period are also notorious for their impartial testaments
>>18655272Augustus won and founded the Roman Empire tho, if anything the incentives were to glaze him, not demonize him
>>18655388Suetonius was writing a century after Augustus' death.
>>18655186Suetonius was the National enquirer of Ancient Rome. I bet you think Table Talks is legitimate too.
>>18655464Considering how eager Augustus was to engage in proscriptions, I don't disbelieve Suetonius here
