His younger brother was also declared Augustus in 393, for the Western half.

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.

Druids were seen as essentially non-Roman: a prescript of Augustus forbade Roman citizens to practice " druidical " rites.

Crassus personally killed their king, Deldo, in combat, a feat which qualified him for Rome's highest military honour, spolia opima, but Augustus refused to award it on a technicality.

Ronald Syme points out the similarity of Crassus ' removal from the official record with that of Cornelius Gallus, the contemporary disgraced governor of Egypt, who was recalled by Augustus for assuming inappropriate honours.

Augustus claimed the victory as his own but permitted Crassus a second, listed on the Fasti for 27 BCE, by which time Augustus was abolishing various proconsulates to form his own Imperial provinces.

In 75 BC, C. Scribonius Curio, proconsul of Macedonia, took an army as far as the Danube and gained a victory over the inhabitants, who were finally subdued by M. Licinius Crassus, grandson of the triumvir and later also proconsul of Macedonia during the reign of Augustus c. 29 BC.

Following this, Augustus Caesar introduced a free public service based on Crassus ' model.

The Romans hoped that Augustus would avenge the defeat of the Roman general Marcus Licinius Crassus on the Parthians, but he contented himself with a treaty, by which Phraates gave back the prisoners and the conquered eagles ; the kingdom of Armenia also was recognized as a Roman dependency.

Around the same time, Augustus recovered the eagle standards ( Aquilae ) lost by Marcus Licinius Crassus in the Battle of Carrhae in 53 BC.

In 29 BC, Augustus sent several punitive expeditions into Dacia led by Marcus Crassus which inflicted heavy casualties and apparently killed three of their five kings.

In composing the character of Aeneas, Virgil alludes to Augustus, suggesting that the gods work their ways through humans, using Aeneas to found Rome and Augustus to lead it, and that one must accept one's fate.

Frederick Augustus declined to accept the crown upon Stanislaw's death in 1798, because he feared becoming entangled in disputes with Austria, Prussia and Russia, who had begun to partition Poland in 1772.

However, it is also now generally accepted that the incident shook the Aboriginal population so much that they were willing to accept the mediation of George Augustus Robinson and allow themselves to be removed to the Flinders Island settlement, where the population dwindled until repatriation to Tasmania in 1847 and the eventual death of the last full blooded Tasmanian, Truganini.

:... the Earl of Ulster was treacherously seized while performing penance, unarmed and barefooted, in the churchyard of Downpatrick, on Good Friday, anno 1203, and sent over to England, where the king condemned him to perpetual imprisonment in the Tower ... After de Courcy had been in confinement about a year, a dispute happening to arise between King John and Philip Augustus of France concerning the Duchy of Normandy, the decision of which being referred to single combat, King John, more hasty than advised, appointed the day, against which the King of France provided his champion ; but the King of England, less fortunate, could find no one of his subjects willing to take up the gauntlet, until his captive in the Tower, the stout Earl of Ulster, was prevailed upon to accept the challenge.

At first the Saxon town councillors attempted to persuade Frederick Augustus II to accept the constitution in public speeches.

He supported the Polish Constitution of 3 May 1791, and headed a diplomatic mission to Dresden, attempting to convince Frederick Augustus III, Elector of Saxony to support the Commonwealth and accept its throne ( after Poniatowski's future death ).

His posthumous honors included his name being placed into the following: the Carmen Saliare ; the Curule chairs ; placed as an honorary seat of the Brotherhood of Augustus and his coffin was crowned by oak-wreaths.

Augustus wintered at Tarraco after his Cantabrian campaign, and bestowed many marks of honour on the city, among which were its honorary titles of Colonia Victrix Togata and Colonia Julia Victrix Tarraconensis.

In Gades, ( modern Cádiz ) and Carthago Nova ( modern Cartagena ) Spain, Juba II was appointed by Augustus as an honorary Duovir.

After Mark Antony's suicide following the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, Octavian had removed all obstacles to his power and henceforth ruled as Emperor, from 27 BC on, under the honorary title Augustus.

Hijmans argues that the Imperial radiate crown represents the honorary wreath awarded to Augustus, perhaps posthumously, to commemorate his victory at the battle of Actium ; he points out that henceforth, living emperors were depicted with radiate crowns, but state divi were not.

There were cults to the Emperor Augustus, his wife Livia, and his heirs Lucius and Gaius Caesar, and the people of Eresos further honoured Gaius Caesar and Claudius Nero, later the Emperor Tiberius, by electing them honorary prytanis in certain years, the most important magistracy at Eresos.