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In my sixth and seventh consulates, 28 and 27 BC,
在我的第六次和第七次領事任期之間，公元前28至27年，
after extinguishing the civil war,
在壓制了內戰后
having obtained all things by universal consent
在一致同意下獲得了一切。
I handed over the state from my power to the control of the senate and Roman people.
我把國家從我手中交到了元老院和羅馬人民的手中。
And for my merits by a senate decree I was called Augustus.
由于我的功績，元老院法令稱我為奧古斯都。
The doors of my temple were publically clothed with Laurel
我的廟宇門上都公然覆蓋上了月桂，
and a civic crown was fixed over my door and a gold shield placed in the Julian senate house.
槲葉環被固定在門上，黃金盾放在凱撒元老廳里。
The inscription of that shield testifies to the virtue, mercy, justice and piety
盾上的銘文表明了美德，仁慈，正義和虔誠。
for which the senate and Roman people gave it to me.
這是元老院和羅馬人民賦予我的。
After that time I exceeded only influence
自那之后我的影響越來越大，
but I had no greater power than the others who were colleagues with me in each magistracy.
但是我的權利并沒有比其他的地方行政官大。
Yeah right Augustus.
奧古斯都說的對啊。
Augustus also
奧古斯都支持詩人
supported poets and prose writers who would help him glorify the Principate and help him raise Rome's moral tone.
支持那些幫助他美化元首制幫助他提升羅馬道德基調的作家。
He did not pay the writers directly of course because that would be too obvious.
他并不會直接給作家報酬，因為那就太明顯了。
But those who toed the party line however,
但是那些緊跟著黨的路線的人，
tended to split their time between huge country estates and beautiful down town roman town houses.
更愿意把時間分散花在大型鄉村莊園和繁華的羅馬商業中心。
One of these was Quintes Horatius Flacus, Horace of Carpe Diem fame.
他們中的一位是昆圖斯·賀拉斯·弗拉庫斯，賀拉斯以及時行樂著名。
In his famous ode 1.37 Horace writes:
在他的著名頌歌37中 賀拉斯寫到:
"Now it is time to drink, time to smite the earth with happy dancing feet,
現在是時候喝酒，是時候讓歡樂的舞步敲擊地面，
and pile the God's table high with salient feasts my friends.
讓上帝的桌子堆滿豐盛的食物款待我的朋友。
Up to now we weren't allowed to bring out the good wine our ancestors had stored up
直到現在我們不被允許拿出祖先收藏的好酒，
as long as that demented queen was plotting ruin and death for the capital and the empire,
只要精神錯亂的女王還在暗中密謀殺死國王和攻陷首都，
along with her sick flock of eunuchs helplessly drunk but hoping for something good.
一群惡心的太監，是她的幫兇，喝的爛醉但是期待著好事。
She sure sobered up when she saw that just one ship made it back from the fires.
但她看到只有一艘船時從火中返回時，她馬上清醒了。
And Caesar gave her wine logged brain a textbook lesson in terror."
凱撒給了她一個教訓。
Horace is talking of course, about Augustus' victory over Anthony at Actium.
當然賀拉斯在談論奧古斯都在亞克興角打敗安東尼的勝利。
But notice there is no mention of the actual winner,
但是注意到這里沒有提到實際的勝利者，
Marcus Agrippa and notice how he follows the Augustan party line by refusing to talk of it as a civil war.
和阿古利巴注意他是如何跟隨奧古斯都的思想，拒絕把它稱為內戰。
Instead Horace emphasizes the victory over the ancient Egyptian queen Cleopatra.
相反賀拉斯強調出他們戰勝了古埃及的女王克利歐佩特拉。
So Augustus' victory is not so much that of a Roman over another Roman
因此奧古斯都的勝利并不僅僅是一個羅馬人戰勝了另一個羅馬人，
as it is the victory of Rome over chaos, personified by an ancient Egyptian chick.
而是羅馬戰勝了由埃及少婦代表的混亂。
