The Rise of the Praetorian Guard
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Aristotle's Revelations - A Brief History
In 27 b c, augustus is able to have a province which has allyricum and under gaul. Other places where most of the legions are. The senate bas has one legion, which i think is in africa. And egypt is his personal province. So it doesn't matter that he only has part of the empire. He effects, he rules it all. There is no magistrate called emperor. It doesn't exist, and will not exist for quite a long while.
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