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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]
Throughout Europe and the Mediterranean, other ancient civilizations distinguished individuals using single personal names. These names usually combined two elements or themes which allowed for hundreds or even thousands of possible combinations - a dithematic naming system. But a markedly different system of nomenclature arose in Italy, where ...
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.
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]
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 ...