Which statement best describes why it was important for Augustus to change the way he appeared to others?

A) He wanted the common people to think he was handsome so that they would vote for him.
B) He wanted to make Rome a center of the most fashionable architecture of the time.
C) He wanted Romans to think he would be a strict dictator so the empire would be under his control quickly.
D) He wanted common people as well as Republican senators to support him and not feel threatened by him.