"It was dangerous to trust the sincerity of Augustus; to seem to distrust it was still more dangerous."
— Edward Gibbon

January 1, 1970

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Vol. 1, Ch. 3 "Of the Constitution of the Roman Empire, in the Age of the Antonines"