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Tacitus Annals 1 Kings have had control of the city of Rome from the beginning. Lucius Brutus established freedom and consulship. Dictatorships were assumed (taken up) from time to time. Decemviral power did not survive beyond a period of two years, nor did the consular authority of the military tribunes prevail for a long time. The domination of neither Cinna nor Sulla was long. Pompey and Crassus' power quickly fell to Caesar and the weapons of Lepidus and Antony to Augustus, who received under his rule everything in a tired out from civil war state with the name of 'princeps'. But the fortunes or disasters of the old Populus Romanus have been related by distinguished writers. And there was no lack of gifted men to describe the times of Augustus, until increasing sycophancy detered them. The histories of Tiberius and Gaius, Claudius and Nero were falsified on account of fear while...

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