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Explanation: After Octavian, later known as Augustus, the first Emperor of Rome, conquered Egypt from the Roman Mark Antony and the Graeco-Egyptian Queen Cleopatra, Egypt, unusually, was not treated simply as a provincial assignment of the Republic. In a worrying sign of things to come, Egypt was instead treated as the personal property of Octavian... and he continued the practice of receiving the religious devotions of the Egyptians as their 'Pharaoh' and supreme ruler, and claiming their wealth as his personal due.

... purely to assuage the anxieties of the provincials, of course!

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