Imperator Caesar Augustus

Reading notes

• The Odes §1.2 Caesar

  Octavian, the future Augustus, cast as the god-sent avenger of the murdered Julius and savior of Rome.

• The Odes §1.6 Caesar

  Octavian, whose praises Horace fears to spoil with an inadequate talent.

• The Odes §1.12 great Caesar

  Augustus, who is to 'reign second' to Jupiter and rule the world justly.

• The Odes §1.21 prince Caesar

  Augustus, from whom Apollo, moved by prayer, will drive war, famine, and plague onto Rome's enemies.

• The Odes §1.35 Caesar

  Augustus, whom the goddess is begged to guard on his march to the Britons at the world's edge.

• The Odes §1.37 Caesar

  Octavian, who pursued the fleeing queen 'as a hawk the doves,' to give the 'fatal monster' to chains.

• The Odes §2.9 Augustus

  Whose 'new trophies' in the East Valgius should celebrate in place of his grief.

• The Odes §2.12 Caesar

  Augustus, whose battles Maecenas will 'better tell in prose histories.'

• The Odes §3.3 Augustus

  Foretold to 'drink nectar' among the gods, his apotheosis earned like theirs.

• The Odes §3.4 Caesar

  Refreshed by the Muses in the 'Pierian grotto' once he stows his weary cohorts.

• The Odes §3.5 Augustus

  To be reckoned a god on earth for adding Britons and Persians to the empire.

• The Odes §3.14 Caesar

  Returning a victor from Spain 'in Hercules' fashion,' to a true holiday.

• The Odes §3.25 Caesar

  Whose 'eternal glory' the inspired poet will set among the stars.

• The Odes §4.2 Caesar

  Whom the greater poet Iullus will sing as he drags the Sygambri in triumph.

• The Odes §4.4 Augustus

  Whose 'fatherly heart' toward the young Neros shaped their valor.

• The Odes §4.14 Augustus

  'Greatest of princes,' whose deeds in war the Vindelici lately learned.

• The Odes §4.15 Caesar

  Whose age restored harvests, the standards, peace, and the old Roman arts.

• The Epistles §1.3 Augustus

  The future emperor Augustus, here still the young Caesar Octavian; cited as a great man who could not make the singer Tigellius perform on demand.

• The Epodes §1 Caesar's

  Octavian, the future Augustus, called 'Caesar' throughout; Maecenas sails to share his danger at Actium.

• The Satires §1.3 Caesar, who could

  The young Caesar Octavian, later the emperor Augustus; cited as a man powerful enough to command anything except Tigellius's cooperation as a singer.