Agrippa's Triumphant Triumph - A Brief History

When augustus died, he had planned for marcellus to succeed him. But the young man was simply not experienced enough yet to over so augustus turned to his brother agrippa. The first step he took was to resign the consulship on july first - a day which would go down in history as the date augustus himself marked the official beginning of his imperial reign. In return for this concession, he had arranged to be named tribune in perpetuity -- an ingeniously simple manoeuvre that allowed him to abandon the consulships without actually giving up any power. A tribun numeral call has the right to attend senatorial sessions, propose legislation