The Significance of Octavian's Willingness to Give Up His Powers

Multiple Choice

The significance of Octavian's willingness to give up his powers in 27 B.C. rests in

A) the magnitude of his military failure.
B) his belief that it created legitimacy and removed his reign from the taint of despotism.
C) his hope that the Senate would proclaim him a god.
D) the fact that the Senate accepted the offer.
E) the fact that it never happened; his admirers later created this myth.