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After Caesar's murder on the Ides of March, his consular colleague Mark Antony passed the Lex Antonia which abolished the dictatorship. The office was later offered to Octavian by the Senate following his victory in Actium, who declined it, and opted instead for Tribunician power and Consular Imperium without holding any office other than Pontifex Maximus, Imperator and Princeps Senatus, a political arrangement which left him as functional dictator without having to hold the controversial title.
WI Octavian decides to imitate his late uncle and accepts the revived title of Dictator? How is that altering History? Any thoughts?
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