Aetati tuae, mi Tiberi, noli in hac re indulgere et nimium indignari quemquam esse, qui de me male loquatur; satis est enim, si hoc habemus ne quis nobis male facere possit.
• Suetonius, Divus Augustus, paragraph 51. Translation: Robert Graves, 1957." - Meaning and context.">
My dear Tiberius, you must not give way to youthful emotion or take it to heart if anyone speaks ill of me; let us be satisfied if we can make people stop short at unkind words.
 • Ut vides, klimaktera communem seniorum omnium tertium et sexagesimum annum evasimus.
• I have escaped, as you see, the common climacteric of all old men—my sixty-third year.
• Epistle to Caius Caesar (Aul. Gell. Noct. Att. xv. 7.), written on 23 September A.D. 1.
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Aetati tuae, mi Tiberi, noli in hac re indulgere et nimium indignari quemquam esse, qui de me male loquatur; satis est enim, si hoc habemus ne quis nobis male facere possit.
• Suetonius, Divus Augustus, paragraph 51. Translation: Robert Graves, 1957.

— Augustus

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Aetati tuae, mi Tiberi, noli in hac re indulgere et nimium indignari quemquam esse, qui de me male loquatur; satis est enim, si hoc habemus ne quis nobis male facere possit.
• Suetonius, Divus Augustus, paragraph 51. Translation: Robert Graves, 1957." in the context of "My dear Tiberius, you must not give way to youthful emotion or take it to heart if anyone speaks ill of me; let us be satisfied if we can make people stop short at unkind words.
 • Ut vides, klimaktera communem seniorum omnium tertium et sexagesimum annum evasimus.
• I have escaped, as you see, the common climacteric of all old men—my sixty-third year.
• Epistle to Caius Caesar (Aul. Gell. Noct. Att. xv. 7.), written on 23 September A.D. 1." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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About Augustus

Imperator Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus Augustus (23 September 63 BC – 19 August 14), born Gaius Octavius, was the adopted son of Julius Caesar and the first Roman Emperor. He also became a pontiff and later Pontifex Maximus.