That same afternoon he went over to the Imperium to vote at the election of members.
Walk down to the Imperium with me, Harry, and have a bit of lunch.
Royalty, says Homer, is nothing else than a paternal government, like that of a father over his children: 'Ipsum namque regnum imperium est suapte natura paternum.
It would be what is called imperium in imperio, the height of political absurdity.
The Roman reverence for the abstract conception of the magistracy, as expressed in the imperium and the auspicia, led to the preservation of the regal power weakened only by external limitations.
But meanwhile the home officials invested with the imperium had proved insufficient for the military needs of the empire, and the system of prolonging the command (prorogatio imperii) had been growing up (see Province).
For the rest his shoulders alone sustained the whole weight of the "Imperium in Imperio," the great Gould Concession whose mere shadow had been enough to crush the life out of his father.
Probably he thinks of nothing apart from his mine; of his 'Imperium in Imperio.
The abrogation of the imperium of a proconsul had indeed been known,[373] but the deposition of a city magistrate during his year of office seems to have been a hitherto untried experiment.
The Imperiumof the king was unlimited, the highest priestly offices were his.
The keeper of the sacred chickens, which Gracchus's Imperium now permitted him to consult, could get nothing from the birds, even though he shook the cage.
Populi imperium iuxta libertatem, paucorum dominatio regiae libidini propior est'), but admits the impossibility of a restitution of the free state (H.
Nervae et imperium Traiani'), and was probably brought out in instalments.
Igitur a principio coronationis nostræ imperium nostrum aduersus dei inimicos Persas nostrum odium in corde nutriuit, dum cerneret illos in Christianos gloriari, eleuatique in nomen dei, et Christianorum dominari regionibus.
Are not the phrases, imperium Oceano and spoliis Orientis onustum a direct reference to this triumph which, of course, Vergil saw?
In a few cases he can grant very great powers as when he tells Venus: Imperium sine fine dedi (I, 278).
The newly discovered Gaius distinctly states that it was in virtue of a law--Nec unquam dubitatum est, quin id legis vicem obtineat, cum ipse imperator per legem imperium accipiat.
Imperium facile iis artibus retinetur, quibus initio partum est=--Power is easily retained by those arts by which it was at first acquired.
Gravissimum est imperium consuetudinis=--The empire of custom is most mighty.
Male imperando summum imperium amittitur=--By 10 misgovernment the supreme rule is lost.
Argentum accepi, dote imperium vendidi=--I have received money, and sold my authority for her dowry.
Imperium in imperio=--A government within a government.
The clergy who had claimed to be independent of the State, to be an imperium in imperio with the Pope at their head, the officials who had made the name of a Church court execrated in every county in England--all had forgotten them.
The clergy had held for many centuries an imperium in imperio.
If they had a dangerous resemblance to an imperium in imperio, they minimized it by their obvious desire to exercise influence through the Emperor.
Secondly, it was not merely a doctrine but an ecclesiastical organization, a congregation of persons who were neither citizens nor subjects, not exactly an imperium in imperio nor a secret society, but dangerously capable of becoming either.
Of Vortigern's beginning to reign there is this record in an old Chronicle in Nennius, quoted by Camden and others: Guortigernus tenuit imperium in Britannia, Theodosio & Valentiniano Coss.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "imperium" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
