Tiberius tried to give some back and there were a couple of others. Read Caesar and Christ by Will Durant.
I meant when then the army started appointing the emperor, such as Titus and those before him.
Titus inhereted the throne from his father Vespasian, although he got it largely as the result of support from the Legions....
I thought that Titus inherited the throne from his father, Vespasian.
Vespasian used his army to seize control of the state after the ‘Year of the Four Emperors’ which happened after Nero was overthrown and committed suicide.