“The true achievement of Augustus is that he saved the world from disintegration.”

— John Buchan

Augustus (1937)
Context: The true achievement of Augustus is that he saved the world from disintegration. Without him Rome must have lost her conquests one by one, and seen them relapse into barbarism or degenerate into petty satrapies. The wild peoples of the East and North would have ante-dated their invasions by centuries.

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British politician 1875–1940

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