Famous writers have recorded Rome’s early glories and disasters. The Augustan Age, too, had its distinguished historians. But then the rising tide of flattery exercised a deterrent effect. The reigns of Augustus’s successors as emperor, Tiberius, Gaius, Claudius, and Nero, were described during their lifetimes in fictitious terms, for fear of the consequences; whereas the accounts written after their deaths were influenced by raging animosities. So I have decided to say a little about Augustus, with special attention to his last years.
1) Based on this paragraph, what is Tacitus’s perspective or point-of-view about Augustus and Rome’s emperors?