Abstract

On 16 January 27 BC[136] the Senate gave Octavian the titles of augustus and princeps.[137] Augustus is from the Latin word augere (meaning to increase) and can be translated as "the illustrious one". It was a title of religious authority rather than political authority. His name of Augustus was also more favorable than Romulus, the previous one which he styled

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