were a supporter of Augustus, the good news about the recent event and the good news about the imminent event would translate into good news about your life right now. Everything would look different. You and your family would prepare to celebrate. You would start to plan a whole new life. The world was going to change completely. Indeed, because of the recent victory, there would be a sense in which it was already a different place. And your life, right now, would be different as a result. Something has happened; something therefore will happen. And the way things are right now is different
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