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The Roman History: The Reign of Augustus
Cassius Dio
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 220 CE
- Originally in
- Originally in Ancient Greek
- Pages
- Pages 400
Rome still held its elections and had already ceased to be a republic. Cassius Dio, a senator writing in Greek some 250 years later, says so without flinching: whatever the Romans preferred to call the settlement of 27 BC, it was a monarchy, and the only change was that nobody could bear the word king.
Nay, I give up my office completely, and restore to you absolutely everything, — the army, the laws, and the provinces,
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