That house was called the palace wherever he made his abode.

He was confirmed in the title of father of his country, and his person declared sacred and inviolable.17.In short, flattery seemed on the rack to find out new modes of pleasing him; but, though he despised the arts of the senate, he permitted their homage, well knowing that, among mankind, titles produce a respect which enforces authority.
18.

Upon entering into his tenth consulship, the senate, by oath, approved of all his acts, and set him wholly above the power of the laws.

They, some time after, offered to swear not only to all the laws he had made, but such as he should make for the future.19.It was customary with fathers, upon their death-beds, to command their children to carry oblations to the Capitol, with an inscription, that at the day of their deaths they left Augustus in health.

It was determined that no man should be put to death on such days as the emperor entered the city.