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Augustus and would
Germanicus was always favored by his great uncle and hoped that he would succeed Tiberius, who had been adopted by Augustus as his heir and successor.
Germanicus was a favorite of his great-uncle Augustus, who hoped that Germanicus would succeed his uncle Tiberius, who was Augustus's own adopted son and heir.
Tiberius and Augustus had both left gifts to the army and guard in their wills, and upon Caligula's death the same would have been expected, even if no will existed.
From his birth, it was clear that one day Frederick Augustus would become the ruler of Saxony.
This process, of fusing the entire Roman Empire into a single unit, rather than maintaining it as a network of unequal principalities, would ultimately be completed by Caesar's successor, the emperor Augustus.
Philip II Augustus would play a significant role in one of the greatest centuries of innovation in construction and in education.
This new government would survive for the next 500 years until the rise of Julius Caesar and Caesar Augustus, and would cover a period during which Rome's authority and area of control extended to cover great areas of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
All legionary soldiers would also receive a sizeable sum of money on the completion of their term of service: 3000 denarii from the time of Augustus and / or a plot of good farmland ( good land was in much demand ); farmland given to veterans often helped in establishing control of the frontier regions and over rebellious provinces.
The council agreed that Licinius would become Augustus in the West, with Constantine as his Caesar.
Delegates to this sejm passed a resolution forbidding the candidacy of foreigners ; this would explicitly exclude both Emmanuel of Portugal and Augustus II's son, Frederick August II, the Elector of Saxony.
Augustus was confirmed as king of Poland, Stanisław was compensated with Lorraine ( which would pass on his death, through his daughter, to the French ), while the former Duke of Lorraine, Francis Stephen, was made heir to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.
Some legends state that Virgil, fearing that he would die before he had properly revised the poem, gave instructions to friends ( including the current emperor, Augustus ) that the Aeneid should be burned upon his death, owing to its unfinished state and because he had come to dislike one of the sequences in Book VIII, in which Venus and Vulcan have sexual intercourse, for its nonconformity to Roman moral virtues.
The following year, Frederick Augustus was informed of the adoption of primogeniture, meaning he would no longer receive part of his father's territory as he had expected.
He immediately took a liking to her " good character " and the British envoy reported that George Augustus " would not think of anybody else after her ".
In this respect, indeed, he is regarded as having equalled the long reign of Augustus, since it is maintained that Augustus would never have been loved had he lived a shorter time, nor Titus had he lived longer.
Each would be ruled by an Augustus, supported by a Caesar.
He was born shortly after Livia divorced Tiberius Nero and married Augustus ( 17 January, 38 BC ), giving rise to rumours that Augustus was the real father, although this is widely discredited by modern historians as Augustus had not yet met Livia when Drusus would have been conceived ( During his reign, Claudius revived this rumor to give the impression that Augustus was his paternal grandfather in addition to being his maternal great-uncle ).
Augustus seems to have had Tiberius adopt Germanicus as heir because of the latter's marriage to his granddaughter Agrippina ( the last of Augustus ' living grandchildren not in disgrace ) ensured that his own descendents ( through a female line ) would inherit one day-but not because of any secret blood relationship.

Augustus and retain
Philip gave Matilda of Portugal a dowry of a number of major Flemish towns, in an apparent slight to Baldwin V. Fearing that he would be surrounded by the royal domain of France and the County of Hainaut, Count Philip signed a peace treaty with Philip Augustus and Count Baldwin V on 10 March 1186, recognizing the cession of Vermandois to the king, although he was allowed to retain the title Count of Vermandois for the remainder of his life.
King George Augustus Fredric II accepted this change on condition that he should retain his local authority, and receive a yearly subvention of £ 1000 until 1870.

Augustus and restored
After the demise of the Second Triumvirate, Augustus restored the outward facade of the free Republic, with governmental power vested in the Roman Senate, the executive magistrates, and the legislative assemblies.
Around fifty structures were erected, restored or completed, achievements second only to those of Augustus.
After the death in 392 of Valentinian II, whom Theodosius had supported against a variety of usurpations, Theodosius ruled as sole Emperor, appointing his younger son Honorius Augustus as his co-ruler for the West ( Milan, on 23 January 393 ) and by defeating the usurper Eugenius on 6 September 394, at the Battle of the Frigidus ( Vipava river, modern Slovenia ) he restored peace.
The god also had a temple in this name on the Aventine in Rome, which was restored by Augustus and dedicated on September 1.
The buildings on this historic site, including the 1838 Peter Augustus Jay House built by Jay's eldest son, are being restored for educational programs in American History, Architecture and Environmental Stewardship.
In July 1812 Frederick Augustus ratified a proclamation of the Polish Parliament that restored the Kingdom of Poland.
Augustus restored Juba II as the king of Numidia between 29 BC – 27 BC.
After Cato the Younger was defeated by Caesar, he committed suicide ( 46 BC ) in Utica, and Numidia became briefly the province of Africa Nova until Augustus restored Juba II ( son of Juba I ) after the Battle of Actium.
Outside the town, in Santa Maria Capua Vetere, there is the amphitheatre, built in the time of Augustus, restored by Hadrian and dedicated by Antoninus Pius, as the inscription over the main entrance recorded.
Cybele's main Roman temple was restored by Augustus as part of his series of religious reforms.
), a Perseus, a satyr — Marsyas — admiring the flute and Minerva ( Athena ), a Hercules, which was taken to the shrine dedicated by Pompey the Great at the Circus Maximus, Discobolus ( the discus thrower ), and an Apollo for Ephesus, " which Antony the triumvir took from the Ephesians, but the deified Augustus restored it again after being warned in a dream ".
It was restored in the Imperial era, once by the empress Livia, wife of Augustus, and perhaps again by Hadrian.
In 6 AD, Augustus restored the island to Naples in exchange for Capri.
Since the time of Augustus Caesar, the Rostra was restored and expanded further with additional names linked to this same building.
Three columns, and a part of the facade, in the style of the early years of the reign of the Emperor Augustus, have been restored and are standing.
It was restored by Augustus.
In the end, 40 % of the Kingdom, including the historically significant Wittenberg, home of the Protestant Reformation, was annexed by Prussia, but Frederick Augustus was restored to the throne in the remainder of his kingdom, which still included the major cities of Dresden and Leipzig.
Theodosius restored Valentinian II, still a very young man, as Augustus in the West.
Maria and Augustus Callcott's grave in Kensal Green Cemetery, restored by the Chilean government in 2008.
The temple was destroyed by a fire during the reign of Septimius Severus and then restored: being the coins from the period of Augustus and Hadrian, there is also a possibility that the order of the temple was changed during the restoration by Septimius Severus.
After a fire, Augustus in 14 BC heavily restored the edifice.
The throne was destroyed twice by fire in 111 BC and 3 AD, both times being restored, in the latter case by the emperor Augustus.
The mill was built in 1837 and was restored to working order during June / July 2010, and the Catholic Church was designed by Augustus Welby Pugin, the father of Gothic Revival architecture.
Duke Augustus the Younger of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel finally restored Ringelheim to Hildesheim in 1641.

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