imperium
Short definition (Lewis & Short): a command, order, direction.
Full entry: Lexicon.
367 occurrences of this form in 37 works (dictionary form exactly as written, accents ignored, v/u and j/i as single letters; inflected forms not included).
Works using this form
- History of Rome (Books 1–10)
- Annals
- Histories
- Philippics
- The Conspiracy of Catiline
- Gallic War
- Aeneid
- The Jugurthine War
- Letters to Atticus
- De Re Publica
- Letters to Friends
- Letters to Lucilius
- Against Catiline (Catilinarians)
- De Officiis
- Civil War
- Letters
- Life of Tiberius
- Life of Claudius
- De Rerum Natura
- Life of Augustus
- Life of Caligula
- Life of Julius Caesar
- Life of Nero
- Satires
- Epigrams
- Metamorphoses
- Medea
- Life of Domitian
- Life of Galba
- Life of Vespasian
- The Golden Ass
- Epistles
- Odes
- Satires
- Life of Otho
- Life of Vitellius
- Agricola
Example passages
……est populo Romano ut cum suum conditorisque sui parentem Martem potissimum ferat, tam et hoc gentes humanae patiantur aequo animo quam imperium patiuntur.…
……potentia cito in Caesarem, Lepidi atque Antonii arma in Augustum cessere, qui cuncta discordiis civilibus fessa nomine principis sub imperium accepit. sed veteris populi Romani prospera vel adversa claris scriptoribus memorata sunt; temporibusque Augusti dicendis non defuere decora ingenia, donec gliscente adulatione deterrerentur.……
……sed incorruptam fidem professis neque amore quisquam et sine odio dicendus est. quod si vita suppeditet, principatum divi Nervae et imperium Traiani, uberiorem securioremque materiam, senectuti seposui, rara temporum felicitate ubi sentire quae velis et quae sentias dicere licet.…
Subjects
Roman law & empire, War & politics