George Frederick Watts Charity painting

George Frederick Watts Charity paintingFrancisco de Goya Clothed Maja paintingFrancisco de Goya Blind Man's Buff painting
sixhundredth part of divinity, gladly voted Mascenas's motion, and shrines to Augustus were immediately erected in Asia Minor. The cult spread, but at first only in the frontier provinces, which were under the direct control of Augustus, not in the Home provinces, which were nominally under the control of the Senate, not in the City itself.
Augustus approved of Livia's educative methods with Julia and of her domestic arrangements and economies. He had simple tastes himself. His palate was so insensitive that he did not notice the difference between virgin olive oil and the last rank squeezings when the olive-paste has gone a third time through the press. He wore Homespun clothes. It was justly said that. Fury though Livia was, but for her unwearying activity Augustus would never have been able to undertake the immense task he set himself of restoring Rome to peace and security after the long