Word: augustus
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...characters are often almost the same as in Decline and Fall: for the wealthy Mrs. Beste-Chetwynde and her brattish son Peter, Auberon substitutes the wealthy Lady Julia Foxglove and her brattish son Martin; for the loutish Percy Clutterbuck there is the loutish Kenneth Stout; for the sycophantic Dr. Augustus Fagan there is the sycophantic Brother Aloysius. Even the scenes in The Saga are hauntingly familiar: a garden party that is entertained by the Bidcombe Platinum Band recalls the garden party of Decline and Fall, with its Llanabba Silver Band. And Auberon has both his father's love...
Under their masses of masonry the modest home of the great Augustus was buried and forgotten...
Only a few dim clues remain to suggest where the great emperor lived. But early this year Professor Gianfilippo Carettoni, a government archaeologist, started searching for Augustus' house on the Palatine. Diggers soon uncovered the tops of hefty brick foundation piers mingled with older stone walls outlining two rooms...
After the reign of Augustus (27 B.C. to A.D. 14), brick pillars were built on the mosaic floors to support a building on a higher level. Earth packed between the brickwork and the walls saved the decorations. But before the walls disappeared, an irreverent person named Quintus, perhaps a bricklayer, scratched his name on the dead emperor's frescoes...
...Though the frescoes are exceptional for their color and preservation," says Professor Carettoni, "they are most important for their location. Everything found so far indicates that this was the house of Augustus...