Excerpt from Larned's History of the World, or Seventy Centuries of the Life of Mankind, Vol. 2 of 5: A Survey of History From the Earliest Known Records Through All Stages of Civilization, in All Important Countries, Down to the Present Time; Pages 279-574 Octavius was more securely absolute as the ruler of Rome and its great empire than Sulla or Julius Caesar had been, and he maintained that sovereignty without challenge for forty-five years, until his death. He received from the senate the honorary title of Augustus, by which he is most commonly known. For Official titles, he took none but those which had belonged to the institutions Of the republic, and were known familiarly. He was Imperator, as his uncle had been; he was Princeps, or head of the senate; he was Censor; he was Tribune; he was Supreme Pontiff. All the great offices of the republic he kept alive, and ingeniously con structed his sovereignty by uniting their powers in himself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.