However, that his person might be in greater security, they immediately decreed that the pay of his guard should be doubled.15.On the other hand, that he might seem to make concessions on his side, he permitted the senate to govern the weak, internal provinces, while the most powerful provinces, and those that required the greatest armies for their defence, were taken entirely under his own command.

Over these he assumed the government for ten years only, leaving the people still in hopes of regaining their ancient freedom; at the same tune, however, laying his measures so well, that his government was renewed every ten years, to his death.
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This show of resignation only served to confirm him in the empire, and in the hearts of the people.

New honours were heaped upon him.

He was now first called Augustus (a name I have hitherto used as that by which he is best known in history.) A laurel was ordered to be planted at his gates.