Augustus Caesar
... Octavian, son of Julius Caesar who had tried to be that leader and failed with his assassination, slowly and carefully took on that leadership. ... Octavian, later renamed Augustus Caesar, kept his positions and powers because he was smart enough to realize that as long as he improved standards of living the Roman people would adore him and not question his position. ... Augustus Caesar never acquired an actual title of monarch, king, or dictator--he just held many of the powerful Roman republic titles at once. ... Caesar also mentions that when the current consuls fell in war, he was given their position. ... Even the name Augustus which Cassius says was given by the people and the senate is one of honor meaning blessed or magnificent. According to his own testament, Caesar was very conscious about the army making sure that their pay was more than sufficient by giving them some of his own funds. ... Augustus Caesar technically gained his power within the rules of the Roman constitution, so that the people felt comfortable with it, and to keep that support, he made sure the people were peaceful, happy, and comfortable. Caesar never changed the constitution that was so important to the Roman people. ... Tacitus states that most of the Roman citizens alive during the time of Caesar remembered nothing of the Republic as it was before the civil wars, so they were happy with Caesar and did not realize that his holding of so much power and so many titles was far from the original intentions of their constitution.