AUGUST US
A Smaller Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities · 1884 · p. 3
a name bestowed upon Oct avian us in B.C. 27, by the senate and the Roman people. It was a word used in connection with religion, and designated a person as sacred and worthy of worship; hence the Greek writers translate it by Σεβαστός . It was adopted by all succeeding emperors, as if descended, either by birth or adoption, from the first emperor of the Roman world. The name of August a was frequently bestowed upon females of the imperial family; but August us belonged exclusively to the reigning emperor till towards the end of the second century of the Christian aera, when M. Aurelius and L. Verus both received this surname. From this time we frequently find two or even a greater number of August i . From the time of Probus the title became perpetuus August us , and from Philip pus or Claudius Gothic us semper August us , the latter of which titles was borne by the so-called Roman emperors in Germany. [ Caesar . ]
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