In other words, in his propaganda,

套用推崇者的话
Augustus basically said, "I'm not a king,

奥古斯都想表达的是
I'm just another senator, and I'm giving the Senate and

"我不是国王我只是一个元老并且
the people all their power back."

夺回了元老院和罗马人民应有的权利"
A lie, all lies.

谎言全都是谎言
See, lying in government didn't start with our government.

看吧政府撒谎绝对不是从我们政府才开始的
So Augustus actually reconstituted the Senate,

事实却是奥古斯都重组了元老会
and it was just that, a Senate reconstituted by the emperor.

就像是一个皇帝重组了元老会
He became more and more the patron of all the people.

他变成愈来愈多人的庇护者
And this is the way the emperor would forever then try to present himself.

这是帝王永恒的自我表现的方式
He and his family, the emperor's family,

他和他的家族皇族
was, in a sense, the patron for the whole people

在某种意义上是罗马帝国所有人的守护神