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And then there was one final honor, novel and supreme, as was only fitting. It was decreed that Caesar should henceforward be known as “Augustus.” This, for the man born Gaius Octavius, was the culmination of an entire career spent collecting impressive names. A Caesar at the age of nineteen, he had gone one better two years later when, following his adoptive father’s official deification, he had begun calling himself “Divi Filius”—“Son of a God.” Extraordinary though such a name was, it had evidently met with divine approval, for the career of Caesar Divi Filius had never ceased to be blessed ...more
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
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