id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1958 Augustus (title) - Wikipedia .html text/html 2942 463 57 Augustus (plural augusti; /ɔːˈɡʌstəs/ aw-GUST-əs,[1] Classical Latin: [au̯ˈɡʊstʊs]; "majestic", "the increaser" or "venerable") was an ancient Roman title given as both name and title to Gaius Octavius (often referred to simply as Augustus), Rome's first Emperor. The Tetrarchy instituted by Diocletian shared power between two augusti and two emperors titled caesares.[9] Nevertheless, as augustus senior Diocletian retained legislative power.[9] Diocletian and his eventual successor after the civil wars of the Tetrarchy, Constantine the Great both used the title semper augustus ('ever august'), which indicates a formalisation of the name in the late 3rd and early 4th century.[9] From the reign of Constantine onwards, the Greek: σεβαστός, translit. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1958.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1958.txt