... act as a successful focus for opposition to the emperors as the senate committee, in which Augustus probably had a lot of influence, presided over what issues the senate could actually debate. Augustus also encouraged competition, retaining the glamour of the consulship and reducing the length of consulships from one ... the way to succeed politically' and it appears this carried on under Tiberius, with Tiberius calling senators 'men fit to be slaves' This is demonstrated in the senate's indecisiveness about the choice of governor for a province in Africa, to which they eventually positi...

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