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I can't respect Augustus any more once someone pointed out he looks like mark zukerberg
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When Augustus returned to Rome after the victory over Antony at Actium (31 BCE), a man with a raven was among those people who were greeting him. The bird greeted Octavian with the words: “Hail Caesar, the victorious commander”. August bought a bird for twenty thousand sesterces. Then the acquaintance of this man, caused by envy, reported that he had another bird. When the second raven was brought, he exclaimed: “Hello Antony, the victorious commander”. Augustus bought this bird as well. The whole thing prompted a shoemaker to teach Caesar’s greeting to the bird. Lessons went hard, and the shoemaker repeated: “Nothing to show for the trouble and expense”. When the raven finally began to deliver the learned sentence, the shoemaker stood before August, but he said: “I get enough of such greetings at home”. Then the raven screeched: “Nothing to show for the trouble and expense”. Amused Augustus paid more for the bird than for all previous ones.
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