No matter: the Princeps stood pre-eminent, in virtue of prestige and authority tremendous and not to be defined. […] Whether he held authority from the State or not, he could thus raise an army on his own initiative and resources. […] They pretended that the issue lay between a rebellious proconsul and legitimate authority. […] From his career and station, from the authority of the office he held, the predominance of Antonius was a given and inescapable fact. […] No other authority gives ‘Salvius’ as his name: had he taken to latinizing the alien gentilicium?