I was in my nineteenth year when I raised an army on my own initiative and at my own expense, by means of which I restored liberty to the Republic, oppressed by the domination of a faction.
— Augustus Caesar Ancient

First Roman Emperor

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Res Gestae Divi Augusti

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14 AD

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Shocking

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https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Augustus/Res_Gestae/home.html

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