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The Colosseum
"As long as the Colosseum, there will Rome when the Colosseum falls, Rome will also fall, but when Rome falls, the world will fall"
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![]() The Senate awarded him the title of Augustus (the name meant worthy of veneration) January 16, 27 BC and its official name was since then emperor Augustus Caesar Divi filius. In the same year he was also given its name to the month of August (= Augustus) and in 23 BC he was recognized tribunicia potestas and the Imperium proconsulare in life and in 12 BC became Pontifex Maximus. In 8 BC was enacted, the Lex Iulia majestatis in which for the first time the offense was punished for "majesty" of the emperor and finally, in 2 BC, the year of the Temple of Mars Ultor and the Forum of Augustus, he was awarded the honorary title of "Father of the fatherland"
He remained on the throne until his death, and his principality was the longest in Imperial Rome (44 years from 30 BC, 37 years from 23 BC). He made Rome a city of marble monuments, increased water supply with the construction of two new aqueducts, and divided into 14 regiones to manage it better, personally supervised the supplies of food to the population of the capital, increased, finally , the level of security to safeguard Urbe town by placing three new prefectures. He attributed it salary and a bonus of leave to all soldiers of the imperial , a salary assigned (Salaria) for the public service, for all the representatives of the Senate, and then gradually extend it also to the ordinary magistrates. The Republican Judiciary type was paid with compensation and cibaria, rather than Salaria, was the fiscus (ie the cash receipts of the emperor), but Augustus was authorized to draw from it the amounts necessary for all administrative and military functions. The emperor, in fact, it could direct the economic policy of the Empire, and ensure that resources were equitably distributed so that the subject peoples of Rome Government could consider a blessing not a curse. Finally, he created a military aerarium for compensation to be given to veterans. He reorganized the army Augustus died in 14 AD after adopting Tiberius as the new successor |
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