To the great displeasure of the
opponents, Augustus did not die in 23 B.C. He passed away in 14 A.C., in
his house in Noles, when he was 76. It is yet still rumoured that Livie had
something to do with this fact. If the historian read the historical texts
with a critical mind, he soon realizes that the Augustus Principate became
a myth of perfection and safety, only after his founder died. That system
was discredited and threatened by plotting senators who were still eager
for vengeance since the civil wars, dating back from the end of the
Republic. Although the system Augustus founded was hold in hatred, at the
beginning of the Ist century A.C., by those plotters who wished to see its
fall, it was accepted in the end. Plotters disappeared yet. But they now
wanted a princeps who has thought to be unworthy by a more deserving
Roman.
|