His will was the law of mankind, but in the declaration of his laws he borrowed the voice of the senate and people; and from their decrees their master accepted and renewed his temporary commission to administer the republic.

In his dress, his domestics, [155] his titles, in all the offices of social life, Augustus maintained the character of a private Roman; and his most artful flatterers respected the secret of his absolute and perpetual monarchy.
[Footnote 155: Six thousand urns have been discovered of the slaves and freedmen of Augustus and Livia.

So minute was the division of office, that one slave was appointed to weigh the wool which was spun by the empress's maids, another for the care of her lap-dog, &c., (Camera Sepolchrale, by Bianchini.

Extract of his work in the Bibliotheque Italique, tom.iv.p.175.His Eloge, by Fontenelle, tom.vi.p.

356.) But these servants were of the same rank, and possibly not more numerous than those of Pollio or Lentulus.