Yet it was tribunal authority (power of the people), not senatorial rank or consulship, that gave the emperors their Authoritas along with military command their Imperium.

The senate never really held any real power after that and was more of a status and social club, so I guess you could say, in a way that Caesar had accomplished what the Populares had set out to do.

Rome carried on under Augustus under the illusion that the Republic had been restored. Little did they know

It probably took until crisis of the third century for the nakedness of the tyrannical dictatorship to be revealed to the people

Yet it was tribunal authority (power of the people), not senatorial rank or consulship, that gave the emperors their Authoritas along with military command their Imperium.

The senate never really held any real power after that and was more of a status and social club, so I guess you could say, in a way that Caesar had accomplished what the Populares had set out to do.

Rome carried on under Augustus under the illusion that the Republic had been restored. It probably took until crisis of the third century for the nakedness of the tyrannical dictatorship to be revealed to the people