Histories 2.94

1The next day, as if before the senate and people of some other state, he delivered a grandiose speech about himself, extolling his own industry and temperance with praise, although the very men who were present, and all Italy, through which he had passed, shameful in his sleep and luxury, knew of his disgraceful conduct. 1Yet the common people, free from cares and without distinction between false and true, trained in the customary flatteries, applauded with shouts and cries; 1and when he refused the name of Augustus, they forced him to take it, as uselessly as he had refused it.