auctoritas would, for example, persist through an usucapio of ill-gotten or abandoned property. Politically, the Roman Senate's authority (auctoritas...
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that auctoritas and potestas are clearly distinct – although they form together a binary system". He quotes Mommsen, who explains that auctoritas is "less...
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authority of bishops" (auctoritas sacrata pontificum) and the "royal power" (regalis potestas). These two principles—auctoritas lending justification to...
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as sole heir. This early Principate phase began when Augustus claimed auctoritas for himself as princeps, and continued (depending on the source) up to...
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prolific user was Cicero, who initially related it to the established term auctoritas (authority). These two words were highly associated, with the latter defined...
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continuity of sovereignty, attached to a personal form of power named Auctoritas. This is not so in some other monarchies where the new monarch's reign...
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Executive magistrates SPQR Law Twelve Tables Mos maiorum Citizenship Auctoritas Imperium Status Litigation Government Curia Forum Cursus honorum Collegiality...
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Mos maiorum (section Dignitas and auctoritas)
virtus and its varied implications for freeborn Roman males. Dignitas and auctoritas were the result of displaying the values of the ideal Roman and the service...
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Executive magistrates SPQR Law Twelve Tables Mos maiorum Citizenship Auctoritas Imperium Status Litigation Government Curia Forum Cursus honorum Collegiality...
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citizen to control a military or governmental entity. It is distinct from auctoritas and potestas, different and generally inferior types of power in the Roman...
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