What is the meaning of Augustus, the title bestowed upon Octavian by the Senate?

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Mykey · Answer 1 · 2024-05-12T20:14:12+0000

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The illustrious one

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In 27 BCE the Senate awarded him the honorific Augustus ("the illustrious one"), and he was then known as Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus.

Campescassiano · Answer 2 · 2024-05-16T16:15:29+0000

Answer: Ancient historians mark 27 BCE as the end of the Roman Republic because it was that year that the senate conferred on Octavian the title of Augustus (The “Revered one”).

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