Patristic
“(Metaphrastes) For the emperor Augustus being dead, from whom the Roman sovereigns obtained the name of “Augustus,” Tiberius being his successor in the monarchy, was now in the 15th year of his receiving the reins of government.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 3:1-2
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗