The Burning Maze horse is Incitatus, and its owner is the third emperor, Caligula. They return to Aeithales and convey the news to the spirits. Grover tells Apollo about a part of the Labyrinth that is burning, causing droughts and water shortage in the upper world. Hedge and Mellie reveal that Piper McLean and Jason Grace had explored the Labyrinth. Apollo decided to meet with them. Meg plants the seeds with which her father had planned to reincarnate the Meliai. Apollo, Meg and Grover meet Piper and bring Jason, who had broken up with Piper, from his school the following day. Jason confidentially
Roman emperor his "auctoritas" and pious respect for tradition. Some later historians such as Tacitus would say that even at Augustus' death, the true restoration of the Republic might have been possible. Instead, Augustus actively prepared his adopted son Tiberius to be his successor and pleaded his case to the Senate for inheritance on merit. The Senate disputed the issue but eventually confirmed Tiberius as "princeps". Once in power, Tiberius took considerable pains to observe the forms and day-to-day substance of republican government. Rome had no single constitutional office, title or rank exactly equivalent to the English title "Roman emperor". Romans of