Deed — 2 authors face each other below

death of Augustus

kind: death · 14 CE — the editor’s frame · 3 mentions across 3 episodes of the record — counted by the house’s first pass receipt — the deed shelf, first pass receipt — the witness index

The first emperor's death and the managed succession of Tiberius.

Where the accounts part — the record’s own argument; the witnesses below carry the receipts

Suetonius stages a graceful exit — the mirror, the comedy-of-life tag, the kiss for Livia; Tacitus opens his whole history with the rumor of Livia's guilt, the sealed house, and bulletins timed until 'one and the same report told men that Augustus was dead and that Tiberius Nero was master of the State.' The gentle deathbed and the stage-managed one are the two doors into the Julio-Claudian record.

The regnal line — the editor’s table of years, never the record’s voice

Anchored at 14 CE on the editor’s table of years .

· 14 CE — date secure ·

19 August 14 CE at Nola; both witnesses name the place, and Suetonius the theatrical last day.

The accounts, side by side — each witness in its own words; every quote is the served record’s, linked to its episode

Suetonius · one account

98–100 the principal narrative The last day played as comedy's close, and the funeral from Nola to Rome.

asking whether it seemed to them that he had played the comedy of life fitly Suet. Aug. 99

he at last took to his bed at Nola, calling back Tiberius, who was on his way to Illyricum Suet. Aug. 98

The Deified Augustus · J. C. Rolfe, 1913

Tacitus · one account

1.5 the principal narrative The Annals' opening suspicion: Planasia, Livia's watch, the synchronized bulletin.

it has not been thoroughly ascertained whether at the city of Nola he found Augustus still breathing or quite lifeless Tac. Ann. 1.5

The Annals · Alfred John Church & William Jackson Brodribb, 1876

Who stands in this deed — standing in the same episodes; counted by the house’s first pass

Livia — 2 episodes shared Tiberius — 2 episodes shared Agrippa — a candidate entry Augustus — 1 episode shared Drusus — a candidate entry Nero — 1 episode shared Thrasyllus — a candidate entry

Doors to the sister houses

logoi — the words

No door is cut to the word-house from this room yet. logoi.health keeps the words meanwhile.

mythoi — the stories

No door is cut to the story-house from this room yet. mythoi.health keeps the stories meanwhile.

The record here: The Histories, Herodotus — Godley, 1920–25 · Parallel Lives, Plutarch — Perrin, 1914–26 · 166 works · 12,119 episodes served

lives · deeds · times · the shelf