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Pages in category "Ancient Roman titles" The following 97 pages are in this category, out of 97 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Aedile; Aquilifer;
This is a list of victory titles assumed by Roman Emperors, not including assumption of the title Imperator (originally itself a victory title); note that the Roman Emperors were not the only persons to assume victory titles (Maximinus Thrax acquired his victory title during the reign of a previous Emperor). In a sense, the Imperial victory ...
A victory title is an honorific title adopted by a successful military commander to commemorate his defeat of an enemy nation. The practice is first known in Ancient Rome and is still most commonly associated with the Romans, but it was also adopted as a practice by many later empires, especially the French, British and Russian Empires.
Augustus, a Roman honorific title which means "venerable" or "majestic", used by Roman Emperors from the beginning of the Empire onwards. The feminine form is Augusta . Caesar , the appellation of Roman emperors derived from the Roman dictator Julius Caesar , whose great-nephew and adopted son Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus became the first ...
It developed into a formal, dignitary title, derived from the "Companions" of Alexander the Great and rather equivalent to the Hellenistic title of "philos basilikos" or the paladin title of a knight of the Holy Roman Empire and a Papal Palatinus. Thus the title was retained when the titulary was appointed, often promoted, to an office away ...
As a title of sovereignty, the term under the Roman Republic had all the associations of the Greek Tyrannos; refused during the early Principate, it finally became an official title of the Roman Emperors under Diocletian. [2] Augustus actively discouraged the practice, and Tiberius in particular is said to have reviled it as sycophancy. [8]
Abronius Silo - latin poet [1]; Abudius Ruso - aedile and legate [2] [3] Portrait of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa; Lucius Accius - tragic poet and literary scholar [4] [5] [6]; Titus Accius - jurist and equestrian [7]
The first emperor bequeathed the title Augustus to his adopted heir and successor Tiberius in his will. [4] From then on, though it conferred no specific legal powers, Augustus was a titular element of the imperial name. [4] Subsequently, the title was bestowed by the Roman Senate. [4] Until the reign of Marcus Aurelius (r.