The Civil Wars began with nobles contesting for unconstitutionalpower. Sulla took up dictatorial powers for two years to stabilisethe state, and left when he thought he had achieved it. Thepower-hungry re-emerged. Julius Caesar made himself dictator forlife to keep control, but the power-hungry solved that problem byending his life. Augustus avoided taking on formal office and ruledas Princeps (First Citizen) from the background. His successorscontinued this for 200 years until the there was an open shift todictatorship as emperor by Caracalla and those who followed.

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