Praise for Augustus Posted on October 8, 2025 Praise of the first Roman Emperor, Augustus, is an early and persistent theme in Horace’s Odes. Hear an early example in Horace’s Latin and follow in English here; see the illustrated blog post with a magnificent cameo portrait of Augustus here. Post navigation Previous: Augustus, Jupiter’s viceroy on EarthNext: Plancus, Teucer and Tibur