Augustus Quote by Francis Bacon

“Rome, Abby.” I ignored him and turned to my aunt. “A month before my father disappeared, he needed you in Rome. Now I need…

— Ally Carter

“Because the man who stood there before us was not our father. He was somebody else, a stranger who had been sent back in…

— Julie Otsuka

“these Romans counted their lineage through the male line, rather than sensibly through the mother; it was silly, for how could any man ever…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

Augustus," I said. "Really. You don't have to do this." "Sure I do," he said. "I found my Wish." "God, you're the best," I…

— John Green

“It is important to remember that the emperor of Rome, who also lived in the city, was understood by many people throughout the empire…

— Bart D. Ehrman

“In olden days people said, ‘The father knows his son, the mother, her daughter.”

— Shin Jae

“Was my father someone else? And if he was someone else, who was I?”

— André Aciman

Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who arouses opponents to resort to assassination…

— Barbara Tuchman

This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy of Caesar;He only, in a…

— William Shakespeare

“Remember what Aristotle said!” she cries. “Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers. And Horace!” Horace? “What did Horace say, Pithy?”…

— Greg Iles

“One would have said he was his son's servant rather than his father.”

— Pearl S. Buck

“No one knew where wandering men had their homes or their origin; and how was a man to be explained unless you at least…

— George Eliot