imperium

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His "command" (-imperium-) was all-powerful in peace and in war, on which account "messengers lictores-, from -licere-, to summon) preceded him with axes and rods on all occasions when he appeared officially.

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  1. noun Absolute rule; supreme power.
  2. noun A sphere of power or dominion; an empire.
  3. noun Law The right or power of a state to enforce the law.

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  • The Indian rhetoric of "secular nationalism" has acted as a liberal cover in international fora for a swelling Hindu imperium, which was territorially achieved in 1947; Indian elite has gratefully allowed the use, and continuous manufacture, of a Hindu civilizational self-identity to justify the empire. —  Countercurrents.org
  • "Empire" derives from Latin imperium, which means simply "power." —  Foreign Policy In Focus
  • No other single nation has as yet amassed the imperium (mentioned by Ian Williams) to rival that of the United States. —  Foreign Policy In Focus
  • Minnesota Monster Mash: Police-State Zombies in a Dead Republic Britain is a small and withered appendage of the American imperium, but it still serves as a mineshaft canary and microcosm of the fetid atmosphere of the Potomac Empire, as John Pilger demonstrates in an excellent article at Antiwar. com. —  Chris Floyd - Empire Burlesque
  • Thus the auspicia and the imperium were indissolubly connected; as Dr. Greenidge says,[626] "they are the divine and human side of the same power," and may be found together in a thousand passages in Roman literature and inscriptions. —  The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
 

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