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  • The title Imperator prefixed to the name does not occur on the medals of Cæsar.

    Plutarch's Lives Volume III. 46-120? Plutarch 1839

  • The word Imperator is taken for the Latin word meaning 'Commander' which is kind of fitting, to an extent.

    Newlaunches.com 2009

  • Okay, if you have an idea what it looked like - forget it because Imperator is coming from the same folks that brought us DAOC.

    August 2004 2004

  • Okay, if you have an idea what it looked like - forget it because Imperator is coming from the same folks that brought us DAOC.

    Hail Saladboy* 2004

  • Upon the death of his first choice for successor, L. Ceionius Commodus, Hadrian adopted (Feb. 25) the competent Titus Aurelius Fulvius Boionius Arrius Antoninus, who received the imperial powers and took the name Imperator Titus Aelius Caesar Antoninus.

    2. Conquest and Consolidation 2001

  • I have elsewhere said that the title "shogun" originally signified, as did the Roman military term Imperator, only a commander-in-chief: it now became the title of the supreme ruler de facto, in his double capacity of civil and military sovereign, -- the King of kings.

    Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • The Senate also decreed that Cæsar should use the word Imperator as a title prefixed to his name -- Imperator Caius Julius Cæsar.

    Plutarch's Lives Volume III. 46-120? Plutarch 1839

  • August.p. 65 According to the distinction of Victor, he seems to have received the title of Imperator from the army, and that of Augustus from the senate.] 66 From Victor and from the medals, Tillemont (tom.iii. p. 710) very justly infers, that

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • PERRY RHODAN-The First Administrator is a very expensive hostage ATLAN-The Imperator is a stickler for details ... and Perry counted on that!

    Duel Under the Double Sun Scheer, Karl 1977

  • In the midst thereof [23] there are eighty palaces belonging to eighty kings who lived there, each called Imperator, commencing from King Tarquinius down to Nero and Tiberius, who lived at the time of Jesus the

    The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela Benjamin of Tudela

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