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Sodales Augustales (or Sacerdotes Augustales[1], or simply Augustales[2], Classical Latin: Avgvstales[3]) was an order of Roman priests instituted by Tiberius to attend to the worship of Augustus and Iulii. Classical Latin is the form of the Latin language used by the ancient Romans in what is usually regarded as "classical" Latin literature. Ancient Rome was a Civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus (or Tiberius I) born Tiberius Claudius Nero (November 16 42 BC – March 16 AD 37) was the second Roman Augustus ( Latin: IMPERATOR·CAESAR·DIVI·FILIVS·AVGVSTVS September 23 63 BC – August 19 AD 14) born Gaius Octavius Thurinus, was Julius (fem Julia) is the Nomen of the gens Julia, an important Patrician family of Ancient Rome supposed to have descended from They were chosen by lot among the principal persons of Rome, and were twenty one in number, to which were added Tiberius, Drusus, Claudius and Germanicus, as members of the imperial family. Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus or Claudius I ( August 1, 10 BC &ndash October 13, AD 54 ( Tiberius Claudius Drusus from birth to Germanicus Julius Caesar ( 24 May 16 BC or 15 BC&ndash October 10, 19) [4] Women even were appointed priestesses of Augustus, this practice probably took its origin from the appointment of Livia by a decree of the Senate to be priestess to her deceased husband. Livia Drusilla, after 14 AD called Julia Augusta ( Classical Latin: LIVIA•DRVSILLA IVLIA•AVGVSTA (58 BC-29 AD was the wife of The Roman Senate was a political institution in Ancient Rome. [5] A member of Augustales was sometimes a flamen also. A flamen was a name given to a Priest assigned to a state-supported god or goddess in Roman religion. [6]

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  1. ^ Tacit. Titii (properly Titii sodales, later Titienses, Sacerdotes Titiales Flaviales) was a college of Roman priests which originally represented the Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (ca 56 &ndash ca 117 was a senator and a Historian of the Roman Empire. Ann. II 83
  2. ^ Tacit. Hist. II. 95
  3. ^ CIL 10. The Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum ( CIL) is a comprehensive collection of ancient Latin Inscriptions It forms an authoritative source 1624; ILS 156
  4. ^ Tacit, I. 54
  5. ^ Dio. Lucius Cassius Dio Cocceianus ( Greek:) (c 155 or 163/164 to after 229 known in English as Cassius Dio, Dio Cassius, or Dio was IVI. 46
  6. ^ Orelli, Inscrip. 2366, 2368
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