# What's the first thing you think about Augustus Caesar **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 22, 2013, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-about-augustus-caesar/666861 "2013-08-22T09:06:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Namkcalb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Namkcalb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Namkcalb)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-about-augustus-caesar/666861/1 "2013-08-22T09:06:39Z")
When you hear the name Augustus Caesar, what’s the first thing that comes into your mind? ---
**Author:** ![aNewLeaf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@aNewLeaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aNewLeaf)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-about-augustus-caesar/666861/2 "2013-08-22T09:33:00Z")
Wasn’t that the Caesar who died from poisonous mushrooms? ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-about-augustus-caesar/666861/3 "2013-08-22T09:35:40Z")
1. The first roman emperor 2. Julius Caeser’s nephew. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-about-augustus-caesar/666861/4 "2013-08-22T09:40:46Z")
> [@aNewLeaf](#): > > Wasn’t that the Caesar who died from poisonous mushrooms? Figs, fresh from the tree, but deliberately painted with poison by his wife. ---
**Author:** ![Space\_Vegetable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Space\_Vegetable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Space_Vegetable)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-about-augustus-caesar/666861/5 "2013-08-22T09:44:02Z")
Something else: Has a month named after him. Then Brian Blessed’s portrayal in I Claudius. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-about-augustus-caesar/666861/6 "2013-08-22T09:45:20Z")
> [@aNewLeaf](#): > > Wasn’t that the Caesar who died from poisonous mushrooms? That was Claudius. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-about-augustus-caesar/666861/7 "2013-08-22T09:56:22Z")
Any young lady who’s been hired to service him had better f\_\_k him like Helen of Troy with her ass on fire, or Pullo will know the reason why. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-about-augustus-caesar/666861/8 "2013-08-22T10:25:08Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > Any young lady who’s been hired to service him had better f\_\_k him like Helen of Troy with her ass on fire, or Pullo will know the reason why. LOL. I was going to say, I always remember him as Mr. Bingley. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-about-augustus-caesar/666861/9 "2013-08-22T10:29:13Z")
"And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. " ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-about-augustus-caesar/666861/10 "2013-08-22T10:43:57Z")
When you meet him in Civilization IV and he says “Care for some salad? I made it myself.” ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-about-augustus-caesar/666861/11 "2013-08-22T10:59:23Z")
[This statue.](http://mawdizzle.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Augustus-Caesar-Statue.jpg) (There was a picture of it in my junior high school history textbook, and I’ve associated it with him ever since). ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-about-augustus-caesar/666861/12 "2013-08-22T11:00:44Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > Figs, fresh from the tree, but deliberately painted with poison by his wife. There were rumors along those lines, but nothing that was ever proven. He was 75 when he died. It was more likely just old age that got him. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-about-augustus-caesar/666861/13 "2013-08-22T11:45:55Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > [This statue.](http://mawdizzle.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Augustus-Caesar-Statue.jpg) > > (There was a picture of it in my junior high school history textbook, and I’ve associated it with him ever since). +1 ---
**Author:** ![DrumBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e79b87/32.png) [@DrumBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrumBum)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-about-augustus-caesar/666861/14 "2013-08-22T11:56:10Z")
I know you asked for one but… Sid Caesar Caesar salad Caesar’s Palace ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-about-augustus-caesar/666861/15 "2013-08-22T12:20:59Z")
Bashing his head against a wall shouting “Quintili Vare, legiones redde!” ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-about-augustus-caesar/666861/16 "2013-08-22T12:32:58Z")
The first thing that I think is that his name is the wrong way round. His full name, after he’d been given Augustus as a cognomen, was Imperator Gaius Julius Divi Filius Caesar Octavianus Augustus, or Caesar Augustus for short. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-about-augustus-caesar/666861/17 "2013-08-22T12:34:49Z")
August was named after him. That is 100% of everything I know about him. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-about-augustus-caesar/666861/18 "2013-08-22T12:36:57Z")
Ditto Peter Morris’s #9 Post. But I recently finished “The Birth of the Messiah” by Raymond E. Brown. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-about-augustus-caesar/666861/19 "2013-08-22T12:40:59Z")
> [@Space\_Vegetable](#): > > Then Brian Blessed’s portrayal in I Claudius. This. Especially the “IS THERE ANYONE IN ROME WHO HAS NOT SLEPT WITH MY DAUGHTER?!!!” scene. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-about-augustus-caesar/666861/20 "2013-08-22T12:45:12Z")
He didn’t own any Apple products. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-first-thing-you-think-about-augustus-caesar/666861.md?page=2)