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

The Roman Senate started life as an advisory ... could afford to become deeply involved in politics. During the empire, the senate was at the head of the government bureaucracy and was a law ...

A few years before, in 395, the splitting of the Roman Empire into western and eastern halves meant that much of Rome’s power had already shifted north to Milan and Ravenna, leaving the Senate ...

meaning he could rule the Roman Empire alone. He was assassinated in the Senate by political opponents who were concerned he was too powerful. Emperor Augustus was the first Roman emperor.

The Roman Senate started life as an advisory ... could afford to become deeply involved in politics. During the empire, the senate was at the head of the government bureaucracy and was a law ...