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Augustus’ sarcasm

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19 March 2020
Octavian Augustus
Octavian Augustus

When Octavian Augustus heard that among the young children that Herod the Great had ordered to murder in Syria was Herod’s son, he said (having in mind Jewish custom of abstaining from pork)

– It is better to be Herod’s pig, than his son1.

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Battle of Philippi in 42 BCEWars of second triumvirate Bust of Augustus with corona civicaAugustus Agrippina the Younger - Nero's motherAgrippina the Younger Bust of emperor TiberiusTiberius Busts of Julius Caesar and Pompey the GreatGreat Roman civil war
Author: Marek Mikołajczyk
Footnotes
  1. Macrobius, Saturnalia, II, IV:11
Sources
  • Jerzy Łanowski, Antologia Anegdoty Antycznej

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