When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

On the frontiers of the empire, Roman generals served as patroni for the ... equestrians were recruited into the Senate. Membership of the equestrian class was not restricted to Italian-born ...

He was a great Roman general, a very popular leader and he was ... The two most powerful people in the senate were the consuls. Every year, the citizens of the Roman Republic voted for who they ...