As he was speaking in the senate someone said to him: “I did not understand,” and another: “IT would contradict you if I had an opportunity.” Several times when he was rushing from the House in anger at the excessive bickering of the disputants, some shouted after him: ‘Senators ought to have the right of speaking their mind on public affairs.” At the selection of senators when each member chose another,’ Antistius Labeo named Marcus Lepidus, an old enemy of the emperor’s who was at the time in banishment; and when Augustus asked him whether there were not others more deserving of the honour, Labeo replied that every man had his own opinion. Yet for all that no one suffered for his freedom of speech or insolence.
The Greek stands ready in the workroom; the English is served. Both faces will read together.
Augustus — a life Marcus — a candidate entry
The Deified Augustus, Suetonius — translated by J. C. Rolfe, 1913
Apparatus shelf — Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars (J. C. Rolfe translation; Dover republication) · J. C. Rolfe, 1913 (preface dated Philadelphia, April 1913); Dover Publications republication, 2018
license: public-domain (US: the served text is Rolfe's 1913 translation, pre-1930 — verified from the scan's own copyright and preface pages; Dover-era apparatus [2018 arrangement, introductions, endnotes, index, the Lives of Illustrious Men part] is not extracted and not served)