| The subsequent partial recuperation of the Greco-Roman world under the principate suggests, however, that Caesarism was the lesser evil. |
| A few decades later, emperor Augustus, founder of the principate, tried to pacify the territories on the right bank of the Danube and conquer those lying between the Rhine and the Elbe. |
| It was useless to demand that a man be proclaimed to the principate if that man be dead. |
| Under the principate their status underwent a marked decline. |
| The former in 27 BC became princeps civitatis and got the title of Augustus, founding the principate, a diarchy between the princeps and the senate. |
| Under the principate emperors never indulged in such monomachy. |
