Octavius never outwardly declared himself emperor, and he still let the senate have some power

Edit: and to add on to that, after restructuring Rome, the empire would see many many years of horrific evil at the hands of shit tier emperors and dimwit emperors used to enrich the FBI I mean praetorian guard.

It’s the same problem that monarchies have, rome just lied about being a dumber version of a monarchy so people wouldn’t revolt.

Octavius never outwardly declared himself emperor, and he still let the senate have some power