Auguste et les limites de l’empire: la question de l’expansion de l’Imperium Romanum dans les sources litteraires

Through literary sources of the time of the Principate, one can find remains of the official discourse and debates on the Roman conquest. The long-standing tension between the imperial expansion or stabilization was linked to an old tradition, related to the image of the collapse of Rome under its own weight, but it was updated when Augustus established the Principate and tried to give it longevity