92.11
He said that he would leave to the Romans as his successor on the throne a man who never had deliberated twice about the same thing, meaning Tiberius.
92.12
When he was trying to quiet the young men in high station who were in an uproar, and they paid no heed, but continued with their uproar, he said, Do you young men listen to an old man, to whom old men listened when he was young. Cf. Moralia, 785 D.
92.13
When, as it appeared, the Athenian people had committed some offence, he wrote from Aegina that he supposed they could not be unaware that he was angry; otherwise he would not have spent the whole winter in Aegina. But he neither said nor did anything else to them. Cf. Dio Cassius, liv. 7, who says, however, that Augustus spent the winter (21 B.C.) in Samos.
92.14
One of the accusers of Eurycles Presumably the Eurycles who pursued Cleopatra’s ship (on board which was the Antony) at Actium; Cf. Plutarch. Life of Antony, chap. lxvii. (947 A). was unsparing and tiresome with his frank utterances, and went so far as to say, If these things, Caesar, do not seem to you to be of high importance, order him to repeat for me the seventh The fourth book (which tells of Brasidas), as the books are now numbered, would be in point: but we know that anciently the history of Thucydides was divided into thirteen books (and into nine books) as well as into eight books. book of Thucydides; and Augustus, much incensed, ordered the man away to prison, but, on learning that he was the sole survivor of Brasidas’s descendants, he sent for him, and, after reproving him moderately, ordered that he be released.
92.15
When Piso Probably Cn. Calpurnius Piso, consul 7 B.C., but it may have been his father, of the same name, or L. Calpurnius Piso. built his house with great care from the foundation to the roof-tree, Augustus said, You make my heart glad by building thus, as if Rome is to be eternal.
