27 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire

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1. Yeah heard about all that but… what’s up with the Baby attached to his foot 👀

2. Nyolciánus

3. Go back to /r/altright

4. We get it, you’ve a tiny dick.

5. Awful decision, should not have been done. Cato is spinning in his grave.

6. >is granted the title Augustus

   That’s still a long way till Decemberus /s

7. Well I didn’t vote for him

8. He actually never used Octavianus. He went from Octavius to Caesar after the adoption to Augustus after the Senate gave him the title. Octavianus is only used by contemporaries to help distinguish him from his adoptive father, but it was never his name (even though it should have been if he had followed proper Roman onomastics)

9. The more interesting part for me is that her wife casually stored this in her villa for centuries, in this condition

10. Initially some thought of giving him the name “Romulus”. However, Augustus refused it as Romulus was a king at one point hated and perhaps killed by the senators of the time. The senator who proposed “Augustus” was Lucius Munacius Plancus. (It kinda means “Augmented”, deriving from Augeo and having religious connations). Ennius, an ancient Roman poet widely studied and read by Romans, used “Augustus” as an epithet of Romulus. So basically Augustus found a way to call himself Romulus without doing so.

11. Ah the glory days