# otd suetonius augustus bacchus dionysus

Augustus dies 19 August 14 CE at the ripe old age of 75.

While Tacitus Annals 1.5 alludes to Livia as implicated in his death, “some suspected foul play on the part of his wife”, natural causes after a long life in power seem far more likely.

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tells us that purportedly led an abstemious life.

Had been "reinvented" to fit Caesar's conservatism thru works like Virgil's Georgics in response to Mark Antony's patron god

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