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This title, originally the name of a branch of the Julian family at Rome, was a umed as a mark of dignity by the emperors after Nero. It became subsequently the title of the presumptive heir to the empire, and the next title of dignity after August us; but was superseded in the Greek empire under Alexis Comnenus by that of Sebastocrator. In the West, it was a umed by the emperors of Germany; and, in German, " Kaiser" is now the peculiar title of the emperor of Austria, who has succeeded to several of the dignities of the former. [s. 193]