It was customary, during the free republic, for the censor to be named Princeps Senatus, (S.
For the conduct of his share of the public administration the princeps required a great number of assistants in his personal employ.
Thereupon Vitellius was recognized as princeps by the Senate and his forces occupied Rome.
As Tacitus expresses it, the fatal secret of the empire was discovered, namely, that the princeps could be nominated elsewhere than in Rome.
The senators lived in terror of being accused by informers (delatores), and in their anxiety to conciliate the princeps they were only too ready to condemn any of their own number.
On that occasion his name was placed at the head of the new roll as the princeps senatus.
The necessary counterpart to the assumption of administrative duties by the princeps was the development of an imperial civil service, the officials of which were nominated by the princeps, and promoted or removed at his pleasure.
On the other hand, Christians looked upon the question as a matter of conscience and morality and regarded the worship of the princeps as an act of idolatry.
The constitutional history of the principate is the story of the gradual absorption of the Senate's powers by the princeps and the supplanting of the Senate's officers by those in the imperial service.
But when the princeps came to assume control of those branches of the administration the expense of which was defrayed by the aerarium, it was inevitable that the treasury itself should pass in some degree under his supervision.
The Romans regarded the imperial cult from the political standpoint and considered the refusal to recognize the divinity of the princeps as an act of treason.
Messalina, the third wife of Claudius, and her lover Gaius Silius, to depose the princepsin favor of Silius, endangered the power of the trio Pallas, Narcissus and Callistus.
In Rome where the cult of the ruling princeps was not practised, Domitian converted the temple of Augustus into a temple of the Divi or the Caesars.
In the absence of the princeps he also presided over the imperial judicial council.
In this instrument, he is called, with an hyperbole of praise which the University would perhaps now he more cautious of applying to any individual, "In Literarum Republica Princeps jam et Primarius.
And of judgment: because princeps huius mundi iam the prince of this world is iudicatus est.
Now is the judgment of the nunc princeps huius mundi world: now shall the prince of eiicietur foras.
And there was a man of the pharisaeis, Nicodemus nomine, Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a princeps Iudaeorum.
I will not now speak many vobiscum: venit enim princeps things with you.
All the balls being white he was called in, and amid clapping of hands and congratulations the Princeps Academiae in the name of the society announced his election.
There the Princeps Academiae and the two censors (who are old kapellmeisters) gave him an antiphon from the Antiphonary; he was then conducted by the verger to a neighbouring apartment and locked in, there to set it in three parts.
Explained at length, the pun means, “Princeps broke his left leg, when he could have better afforded to break two right-handed pipes.
A certain Nobleman was about to exhibit a show, just when Princeps was beginning to walk abroad.
Of the English editio princeps the critic tells nothing, nor indeed has anyone as yet been able to tell us aught.
Syphax threw my bloody mantle, with the purple hem of the 'princeps senatus,' upon the shore, in order to mislead my enemies.
In the Roman Forum the Quirites drank with the barbarians to the health of the King of the Goths and the ruin of the Prefect of Rome, the Princeps Senatus!
He is no longer Princeps Senatus, but Princeps Inferorum.
By Princeps and the heir-apparent is meant, of course, the Prince of Wales, afterwards George IV.
He was designated Patrician, and Princeps Iuventutis, and Cæsar.
The Rector Magnificus of the University of Leyden called her not onlyPrinceps fæminini sexus, but Princeps terrarum.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "princeps" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
