Notes- Tacitus

Rome ruled by kings

Freedom by brutus

Dictatorships were temporary

The despotisms of Cinna and Sulla were brief;

the rule of Pompey and of Crassus soon yielded before Caesar;

the arms of Lepidus and (Mark) Antony before Augustus; who, when the world was wearied by civil strife, subjected it to empire under the title of "Prince."

But the successes and reverses of the old Roman people have been recorded by famous historians;