The recent discovery of a new fragment of the Monumentum Antiochenum, belonging to chapter 34 of the Res Gestae, allows us to read potens rerum omnium, whereas potitus had been previously suggested. This reading (which is certain) is of remarkable importance for the author of the present contribution: it should induce us to revise our vision of the Augustan principate, because it contradicts the assumption (based on the erroneous restoration potitus) that Augustus recognized to have seized irregularly the power.
