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His younger brother was also declared Augustus in 393, for the Western half.
Augustus also forbade Crassus to accept the honorary title of imperator (" supreme commander ") from his troops, traditional for victorious generals.
He also adopted the name " Augustus " as the two previous emperors had done at their accessions.
In the Aeneid ( published circa 17 BC ), Vergil claims the descent of Augustus Caesar's Julian clan from the hero Aeneas through his son Ascanius, also called Iulus.
He was also a favourite with Augustus, his great-uncle, who for some time considered him heir to the Empire.
Strabo also mentions British kings who sent embassies to Augustus and Augustus ' own Res Gestae refers to two British kings he received as refugees.
The Julio-Claudian dynasty normally refers to the first five Roman Emperors: Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula ( also known as Gaius ), Claudius, and Nero, or the family to which they belonged ; they ruled the Roman Empire from its formation, in the second half of the 1st century ( 44 / 31 / 27 ) BC, until AD 68, when the last of the line, Nero, committed suicide.
Gaius and Lucius, the first two children of Julia and Agrippa, were adopted by Augustus and became heirs to the throne ; however, Augustus also showed great favor toward his wife Livia's two children from her first marriage: Drusus and Tiberius.
Not only did the new Caesar belong to both the Julii and the Claudii, but he was also a direct descendant of Augustus Caesar as well.
Like his uncle Caligula before him, Nero was also a direct descendant of Augustus Caesar, a fact which made his ascension to the throne much easier and smoother than it had been for Tiberius or Claudius.
Endersch also held the title of Royal Mathematician to King Augustus III of Poland.
* Horace Swaby ( also known as Augustus Pablo ) A 1970's Reggae and Dub artist famous for using the Melodica ( instrument ) in his music.
* The Pons Lapidis ( also known as Roman Bridge or Theoderic's Bridge ), a Roman structure in stone dating from Augustus reign.
He is also known by his nickname " Romulus Augustulus ", though he ruled officially as Romulus Augustus.
Beside streamlining the army Augustus also regulated the soldiers ' pay.
All legionary soldiers would also receive a sizeable sum of money on the completion of their term of service: 3000 denarii from the time of Augustus and / or a plot of good farmland ( good land was in much demand ); farmland given to veterans often helped in establishing control of the frontier regions and over rebellious provinces.
Roman Emperor Augustus referred to his relation to the deified adoptive father, Julius Caesar as " son of a god " via the term divi filius which was later also used by Domitian and is distinct from the use of Son of God in the New Testament.
He also played Walter Hotenhoffer ( formerly known as Augustus Gloop ) in the Simpsons episode The Scorpion's Tale which aired in March 2011.
At the same time, Agrippa Postumus, the last son of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, is also adopted and named as Augustus ' heir.
The Fasti Triumphales ( also called Acta Triumphalia ) are fragmentary, inscribed stone tablets which were erected somewhere in the Forum Romanum during the reign of the first emperor, Augustus, and date from approximately 12 BCE.
He also declared himself the sole Augustus of the Roman world, ceasing to recognise Manuel I at Constantinople.
The god also had a temple in this name on the Aventine in Rome, which was restored by Augustus and dedicated on September 1.
This period also saw the first coloured British Virgin Islander, Fredrick Augustus Pickering, appointed as President in 1884.

Augustus and ""
Derived from Greek oikoumenikos (), " ecumenical " means " worldwide " but generally is assumed to be limited to the Roman Empire in this context as in Augustus ' claim to be ruler of the oikoumene / world ; the earliest extant uses of the term for a council are Eusebius ' Life of Constantine 3. 6 around 338, which states "" ( he convoked an Ecumenical Council ); Athanasius ' Ad Afros Epistola Synodica in 369 ;< ref >
" Saxe wrote to his brother, King Augustus III, at Dresden, "" The engagement lasted nine hours and although I was half-dying by the end of it, I resisted my fatigue as though I was in perfect health.

Augustus and Majestic
Unlike the nomen and cognomen, an agnomen was usually not inherited unless the son also had the same attribute or did the same deeds, although some victory agnomina like Augustus (" Majestic ") and Germanicus (" the German ( Conqueror )") eventually became handed down as additional cognomina.
For political and personal reasons Octavian chose to emphasise his relationship with Caesar by styling himself simply " Imperator Caesar " ( whereto the Roman Senate added the honorific Augustus, " Majestic " or " Venerable ", in 27 BC ), without any of the other elements of his full name.
Octavian emerged from a series of civil wars as the sole master of the Roman world, and in January 27 BC was appointed princeps senatus and given the cognomen " Augustus " ( Latin, " Majestic " or " Venerable "); henceforth he styled himself " Imperator Caesar Augustus ".

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Barcino Nova is the town's Latin name meaning " new Barcelona "; Barcino was the Roman name for Barcelona in Spain from its foundation by Emperor Augustus in 10 BC, and it was only changed to Barcelona in the Middle Ages.
The obverse shows a bearded Julian with an inscription, FL ( AVIVS ) CL ( AVDIVS ) IVLIANVS PP AVG ( PP = Pater Patriae, " father of the nation "; AVG = Augustus ).
" Toombs, Robert Augustus "; American National Biography Online 2000
His harshest critic was Augustus Moore, who wrote " God help English literature when English people lay aside their Waverley novels, and the works of Defoe, Swift, Thackeray, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and even Charles Reade for the penny dreadfuls of Mr Haggard "; adding, " The man who could write ' he spoke to She ' can have no ear at all ".
Isaac Cohen's father-in-law, Behrend Lehman, called also Bärmann Halberstadt, was a court factor of Saxony, with the title of " Resident "; and his son Lehman Behrend was called to Dresden as court factor by King Augustus the Strong.
Roger Ebert, guessing incorrectly that the inspiration for Neill's character was Augustus John, noted that Sirens has " no particular plot "; he also called it a " good-hearted, whimsical movie which makes no apologies for the beauty of the human body and yet never feels sexually obsessed.
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Augustus and honorific
One of these offices was princeps senatus, (" first man of the Senate ") and became shortened into Augustus ' chief honorific, Princeps ( usually translated as " first citizen ") form which the modern English word and title prince is descended.
* Augustus was the honorific first bestowed on Emperor Augustus: after him all Roman emperors added it to their name.
Augustus had ( by his last will ) granted the feminine form of this honorific ( Augusta ) to his wife.
Honorius became Augustus ( honorific )# In the divided Roman Empire | Augustus on 23 January 393, at the age of eight.
However, Constantine remained neutral with Galerius, but he still took the title of Augustus ( honorific ) | Augustus in the secessionist regime.
Zenobia bestowed upon herself and her son the honorific titles of Augusta and Augustus.
On the obverse he is represented in triumphal attire, wearing the toupha, and on the reverse the traditional acclamation " Theophilos Augustus ( honorific ) | Augustus, you conquer ".
Maxentius as Augustus ( honorific ) | Augustus on a Follis.
The reverse celebrates the victories of the Augustus ( honorific )# In the divided Roman Empire | Augusti.
Initially light cavalry companies formed by Polish Tatars ( the very word ulan came from Lithuanian Tartar surname that might have come from an honorific name for a young, skilled warrior known as oglan ) for one of the magantes, Sapieha, the uhlans joined the forces of Augustus der Starke, the king of Poland-Lithuania-Saxony, and in early 1740s 18th century the first uhlan ' pulks ' ( regiments )-known as uhlans-were formed for his son, king Augustus III.
By this point the status of " Caesar " had been regularised into that of a title given to the Emperor-designate ( occasionally also with the honorific title Princeps Iuventutis, " Prince of Youth ") and retained by him upon accession to the throne ( e. g., Marcus Ulpius Traianus became Marcus Cocceius Nerva's designated heir as Caesar Nerva Traianus in October 97 and acceded on January 28, 98 as " Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus ").
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The full imperial title uses both typically Byzantine and revived archaic Roman elements: ΜΑΝΟΥΗΛ ΕΝ ΧΩ ΤΩ ΘΩ ΠΙCΤΟC ΒΑCΙΛΕΥC ΚΑΙ ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΩΡ ΡΩΜΑΙΩΝ Ο ΠΑΛΑΙΟΛΟΓΟC ΚΑΙ ΑΕΙ ΑΥΓΟΥCΤΟC, " Manuel, by the grace of Christ the God, faithful Emperor and Autocrat of the Romans, the Palaiologos, forever Augustus ( honorific ) | August ".
Statue of Constantine the Great | Constantine I at York, where he was proclaimed Augustus ( honorific ) | Augustus in 306.
Whether or not Augustus substituted the public Lares with " his own " Lares is questionable ; augusti can be interpreted as descriptive, a shared title and honour ( the " august " Lares ) but when coupled with his new cult to the Genius Augusti, Augustus ' deliberate association with the popular Lares through their shared honorific makes the reformed Compitalia an unmistakable, local, " street level " aspect of cult to living emperors.

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