Augustus meanwhile, as supports to his despotism, raised to the pontificate and curule aedileship Claudius Marcellus, his sister's son, while a mere stripling, and Marcus Agrippa, of humble birth, a good soldier, and one who had shared his victory, to two consecutive consulships, and as Marcellus soon afterwards died, he also accepted him as his son-in-law. Tiberius Nero and Claudius Drusus, his stepsons, he honoured with imperial tides, although his own family was as yet undiminished.
Ex hac condicione quædam consequuntur in rerum usu et in cotidiana agendi ratione eorum, qui cum Sancta Sede adiutricem operam coniungunt: nempe «spiritus parsimoniæ», «studium semper animadvertendi veram atque eximiam rationem nummariam eiusdem Sedis Apostolicæ necnon nummariæ rei originem», «magna Providentia fiducia»: atque, præter omnes hasce dotes, ii qui «Sanctæ Sedi serviunt persuasissimum habere debent laborem suum exigere ecclesialem obligationem vivendi ex spiritu veræ fidei, ac partes iuridiciales et ad administrationem pertinentes necessitudinis cum Sede Apostolica, in luce peculiari consistere».latin-ancient latin-ancient