In fact, Hadrian was in competition with Augustus and tried throughout the duration of his rule to present his achievements as going above and beyond those of Augustus. Augustus had taken inspiration from a multitude of cultures, built on and bettered these in his transformation of Rome and, according to Suetonius, "could rightly boast that what he had found as brick he had left as marble". Hadrian, then, had to build on Augustus' already excellent Rome if he were to compete with Augustus' legacy. Hence Hadrian's Mausoleum, a scaled up version of Augustus' Mausoleum.