Maecenas died childless and left all his wealth , including his palace and gardens on the esquiline hill ( the eastern plateau of rome ) , to augustus , with whom he had never ceased to be on friendly terms .
Consider the differences in attitudes , beliefs , and values as well as styles between authors who promote or profit from the republican form of government ( livy , cicero , julius caesar , agrippa in cassius dio ) and those who champion the imperial form ( horace , vergil , ovid , maecenas in cassius dio ) .