![]() ![]() īut while the successes and disasters of ancient Rome have been related by famous writers and there was no lack of noble intellects to speak of the Augustan age, until the tide of adulation deterred them reports of the actions attributed to Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero were distorted by fear while they lived, and by enduring hatred once they were dead. Neither Cinna (consul 87-84BC) nor Sulla (dictator 82-79BC) dominated long, and Crassus (at Carrhae 53BC) and Pompey (at Pharsalia 48BC) swiftly yielded power to Caesar Lepidus (36BC) and Antony their swords to Octavian, who under the name of prince, received a world weary of civil war beneath his imperial rule. Dictators held temporary sway while the power of the Decemviri lasted less than two years (451BC), nor did the consular authority of the military tribunes endure (408-367BC). § 1.1 In the beginning, the city of Rome was ruled by kings (from its founding in 753BC) freedom and the consulate were instituted by Lucius Brutus (consul in 509BC). ![]()
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