05-02-2013, 03:35 AM
Didn't Domitian demand to be called "dominus et deus"? It was my understanding that historians generally view this as a demarcation between the "principate" and "dominate" phases of the empire. I think by the time of Diocletian (probably much earlier), they had given up any pretense of the imperator as simply "first citizen"
There are some who call me ......... Tim?