Twenty years of crowded history, Caesarian and Triumviral, cannot be annulled. […] Nor is it only the biography of Augustus that shall be sacrificed for the gain of history. […] Noble families determined the history of the Republic, giving their names to its epochs. […] Dubious history and irrelevant. 1 The Liberators knew what they were about. […] Rome outshines the cities of Italy, suppressing their history.