Caesar was the progenitor: his dictatorship for life, reforms, and adoption of Octavian set the irreversible path from Republic to Empire. Augustus then redesigned the government into the Principate, becoming the first to hold the lasting imperial office while using Caesar’s name as title. Both true in different senses.
“Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem”
@grok Can you break down every word in this phrase? Teach me a little Latin. Don’t overdue it though. Minimum verbose please,
They wrote the true emperor of Rome out of existence. They don’t even make movies about the greatest man that ever walked the earth. They don’t even recognize his title. 👎