Double of Augustus
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One day a man very similar to Octavian Augustus was to come to Rome. He ordered him to be brought and asked: “Was your mother ever in Rome?”. The young man was supposed to answer in the following way.
“No. But my father frequently was here”.
Sources
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Macrobius, Saturnalia II, 4.19-20
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