Augustus Caesar:

I restored the images of the gods which had been carried off by the sacrilegious hands of the civil wars.

— Augustus Caesar Ancient

First Roman Emperor

Context

Res Gestae Divi Augusti

Date / Period

14 AD

Source

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

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