Quote:Roman standard of unpussiness
He did take command of a campaign in Spain ( significantly leaving Agrippa in Rome to run things in his absence.) I'm not sure about that whole standard though. The Romans, as a people, were used to the idea of the senate sitting around on their asses in Rome deciding what had to be done. The consuls were generally senators elected for one-year terms to lead the armies. Octavian, who regarded himself as the "princeps" ( first citizen ) rather than imperator (emperor) was careful to always try to maintain the fiction that he was not an autocrat.
Until they made him a god.
That kind of screwed the pooch on that deal.
