Did Emperor Augustus own many slaves?
Yes, his household was large having several hundreds of them, which lived in his estate outside of Rome and imperial palace. The household was run by his wife Livia, which she did well and provided a support for him to carry his imperial duties. Without stable family background and excellent bookkeeping that was done by his slaves and oversaw by his wife, it will be a difficult task to stay in the head of the government for half century. In burial vault opened in 1726 not far from his estate and belong to his family, there was discovered about 1000 urns of slaves’s ashes that where part of the household. These were people that were through his reign the intermediate circle of his household doing from cleaning him to rising his children to personal assistance to bookkeeping and were extremely responsible to maintain his success. The trustworthy, loyal, and obedient were buried at the family expense after they died. Beside through his campaign thousands of slaves were captured, shipped,
