August us

Everybody's Encyclopedia · 1912 · p. 2
Caius Julius Cesar Oct avian us, originally called Carus Octavius, the celebrated Roman emperor, was the son of Caius Octavius and Atia, a daughter of Julia, the sister of Julius Comat. He was born 63 B. 0., and died a. p. 14. "He was the first emperor of Rome in the full sense of exercising imperial power as a recognized monarch, and he was also one of the greatest, if not the greatest of the emperors, a liberal patron of art, and broad and sagacious in the exercise of his authority. He is said to have “found Rome of brick and left it of marble.” Auk, the name given to several sea birds, especially the great and the little auk. The great auk is from two to two and a half feet bigh, with short wings almost usele for flight. In the water, however, it makes way with astonishing rapidity.
Readham'da tam maddeyi gor →