... in the provinces distrusted and resented the aristocracy of the Roman senate. Augustus won the favor of these groups with subsidies of grain. By the time Augustus took power, most Romans had lived their entire lives during this period of violence and confusion, and so most had no recollection of the old Roman Republic. Augustus was able to twist the image of this ... former republic to his own benefit by allowing himself only to operate within its constitutional boundaries while all the time usurping the authority of previously popularly elected ... prosperity of the ruling elite and t...

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