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The Augustan Settlement and the Principate
The foundation of the imperial system is conventionally dated to 27 BCE with the constitutional settlement enacted by Octavian, who took the name Augustus. Augustus carefully avoided the title of Rex (King), preferring the ambiguous but potent title of Princeps Civitatis ("First Citizen"). This era, known as the Principate, maintained the fiction of restored Republican institutions—the Senate, [m…