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Last but not least the early Caesars were generally successful in maintaining the Pax Augusta at home and abroad.
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M Cary & H H Scullard A History of Rome
The influence of the emperor’s confidants, if exception be made of Sejanus and Tigellinus, was on the whole beneficial.
The feeling of gratitude to Augustus, which had given rise to his worship during his lifetime, remained alive for a while after his death
A History of Rome M Cary & H H Scullard
During the reigns of Tiberius and Claudius alters were set up here and there to these rulers, or to popular members of the imperial family, like Livia and Germanicus
A History of Rome M Cary & H H Scullard
Of Augustus’s successors Caligula positively forced his worship upon his subjects, and Nero, at the deference of his mother, requested the senate to institute an official cult of Divus Claudius at Rome which was soon neglected.
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