Roman Victory Agnomen...?

In Ancient Rome, victory agnomen is a honorific title used by a successful military commander to commemorate his victory. Examples including Macedonicus, Achaicus, Africanus, Asiaticus, etc.
However, I found it really strange that some great Roman generals and emperors never used it...
1. Pompey as Syricus, Ponticus, and Cilicicus
2. Caesar as Gallicus
3. Octavian as Aegypticus, Pannonicus, Moesicus, Hispanicus, Judaecus, and Galaticus
4. Claudius as Britannicus, Mauretanicus, Thracicus, and Lycicus
5. Trajan as Dacicus, Mesopotamicus, Assyricus, Arabicus, and Armenicus
Wouldn't it sounds cool in Ancient Rome if you have such a long name...?
 
Pompey didn't need any of those agnomens, because he had the much more impressive "Magnus".

Caesar didn't need any, because he was a rex in all but name by the time he was through.

Octavian, like Pompey, didn't need any because he was the more impressive "Augustus".

After that, "Augustus" was the "in" title to have, and while I'm pretty certain Roman Emperors would take names after victories (I seem to remember a "Gothicus", and Trajan taking the Dacian one), none mattered as long as you were Blah Blah [Blah] Augustus.
 

Sir Chaos

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Yeah, it´s a bit as if Barack Obama were introduced as "President of the United States and former Hall Monitor in Elementary School".
 
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