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“His auctoritas was his clout, his measure of public influence, his ability to sway public opinion and public bodies from Senate to priests to the Treasury.”
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“When one person increased (augebat) what another had, so as to fill up a deficiency, this was called auctoritas" (ibid.,”
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“The American political system, on the other hand, is very short of auctoritas, another sort of “power” in the Roman res publica.”
“Caesar justified his crossing of the Rubicon and that violation of the mos maiorum on the grounds that Senatorial conspirators were trying to strip him of his rightful auctoritas fully earned on the battlefields of Gaul, despite the proconsul having little direct political influence as a result his distance from Rome.”
“Oren, I thought tvk made it pretty clear that he did not interpret auctoritas as denoting legalistic authority.”
“For example, Pompey Magnus was not a man of supreme political talents, but instead had a much better taste for war — nevertheless he had supreme auctoritas.”
“The Romans had a word for clout, auctoritas, that was distinct from legal authority.”
“The laws of man can be further broken down into Laws of the Church and Laws of the State.3 This follows the concept of the separate jurisdictions of auctoritas and potestas that Pope Gelasius I first introduced in 496 AD4 and then later theologians expanded upon.”
“The Church or jurisdiction of auctoritas determines the “What?” and “Why?” of a given issue.”
“Indeed, Jonah dons the cloak of Camillus; not unlike Hamilton:—Truly, he does to wisdom what Samuel did to Agal, and—does he not do to auctoritas as Judith to Holofernes?”
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