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The people of the Greek-speaking eastern part of the Roman Empire had a long history of regarding their dead heroes and rulers as gods, although this was not originally a Roman custom. When sycophants labelled Emperor Augustus as god, he accepted the honour, which became customary for his successors.

Latin has two words for a god: deus, which refers to a true god, and divus, which refers to a human who has become a god. On this basis, the emperors were diva. However, Latin as used in the eastern empire lacked the word divus, and so an emperor were be referred to as deus in the east.

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