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The famous German historian Theodor Mommsen (1817–1903) believed the Augustan regime was a “dyarchy” or “diarchy”, in which power was shared between Augustus and the Senate. This view is not generally accepted. My own view, as mentioned above, is that what Augustus established was a monarchical regime based, as we have seen, on a combination of wide powers, with authority resting on broad support from the plebs, the equites, and the army, together with at least toleration by the surviving members of the Republican senatorial aristocracy and the support of the new men whom he had helped to qualify for entry into the Senate.