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 will be described elsewhere. Its essential features were that the constant investiture with the consulship was dispensed with, that the tribunicia potestas was shifted from the background to become the chief symbol of authority for the Princeps in Rome and Italy, and that an imperium, which must now be described as proconsulare, was renewed and perhaps increased. Further isolated grants were made to fill up the gaps in this heterogeneous association of powers, and to elevate the new extraordinary magistrate of the Republic to the requisite height above the ordinary officials of the state.