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called the principate for this reason. However, it was the informal descriptive of Imperator ("commander") that became the title increasingly favoured by his successors. Previously bestowed on high officials and military commanders who had imperium, Augustus reserved it exclusively to himself as the ultimate holder of all imperium. (Imperium is Latin for the authority to command, one of a various types of authority delineated in Roman political

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