id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6820 Constitution of the Roman Empire - Wikipedia .html text/html 5474 611 59 Furthermore, Augustus expanded the use of the tribunician powers granted in 36 BC, which allowed him to interfere in administration, convoke the people, propose legislation, veto other political bodies, etc.[5] After these final reforms had been instituted, Augustus never again altered his constitution,[7] although he did periodically assume the office of censor to affect changes in the Senatorial rolls (alone in 8 BC, and with Tiberius in AD 14) and hold the consulship (twice after 23 BC).[5] When, in 20 BC, a famine in Rome led to the people offering Augustus the dictatorship, he refused, instead taking on the cura annonae: the administration of the grain supply.[5] And when the ten-year term of his proconsular authority elapsed, he continued the fiction of the temporary nature of his authority, having it renewed in 18 BC, 13 BC, 8 BC, 3 BC, and 8 AD.[5] While there were minor changes in the provinces which he governed by nature of his proconsular authority (Gallia Narbonensis and Cyprus were returned to the Senate's administration in 22 BC),[5] its overriding nature did not change until after his death. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6820.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6820.txt