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The Senate under Avgvstvs
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
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At the Seventh Congress of German Historians held at Heidelberg in April, 1903, Prof. Eduard Meyer delivered an address on the subject of Augustus, in which he expressed his view that the restitution of the republic was a genuine act of renunciation. ‘Augustus desired to dwell among his fellow-citizens not as a ruler but as a citizen, of course as the first among them all, as the princeps, like Camillus and the Scipios of old.’ If with Mommsen you described the dual control of Caesar and Senate as a Dyarchy you ought not to forget that’ of the two the Senate in theory held complete predominance,1 the Emperor was ‘its executive, or as Tiberius expressed it, its servant, the Senate was the master (dominus).’
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page 296 note 1 Der Senai unter Augustus, von Theodor Anton Abele. Ferdinand Schöningh. Paderborn, 19x37.
page 297 note 1 Ferrero, G., Grandeur et Décadence de Rome, is misled into making this an example of what he calls the ‘semi-dictatorial’ powers of Augustus, vol. v. p. 146.Google Scholar
page 299 note 1 ‘Quod deinde a. 741 Augustus cnram egit, adolescentes reran apti et senatorium clauum habentes in curiam adscribi ne recusarent (54. 26) pro recensu senatus accipi non debet.’ Res Gestae 2, p. 35.
page 303 note 1 Mr. Stuart Jones in his recent work on The Roman Empire (Story of the Nations, 1908) asserts, p. 3, that Augustus received in 36 B.C. the whole tribunician power including intercessio. This does not correspond with the evidence.