Augustus
Biography
Octavian, Caesar heir, won Actium 31 BC against Antony and Cleopatra. He kept republican forms, princeps, first citizen, while holding all power. The principate, Pax Romana two centuries of relative peace. He reformed everything, army, provinces, marriage laws, rebuilt Rome, marble city of brick. Died declaring, I found Rome clay, I leave it marble, the divine Augustus, month named for him.
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