“quō postquam ventum est, ‘cōnsistitē!’ praescia māter ‘nam locusimperiī rūs erit istud’ ait.”
“After he had arrived there, his prophetic mother said, ‘Halt!, for that countryside will be the placeof empire.’” (The museCalliope tells what the prophetessCarmenta said to Carmenta’s son,Evander of Pallantium, after his arrival in Italy.)
Q. Fuluio Ap. Claudio, prioris anni consulibus, prorogatumimperium est atque exercitus quos habebant decreti, adiectumque ne a Capua quam obsidebant abscederent priusquam expugnassent.
Themilitary authority of Quintus Fulvius and Appius Claudius, consuls of the previous year, was extended and the armies which they had were decided upon, and it was added as a proviso that they should not withdraw from Capua, which they were besieging, until they conquered it.
“imperium”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"imperium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
imperium inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
to enlarge the boundaries of a kingdom:fines (imperii) propagare, extendere, (longius) proferre
the empire reaches to the ends of the world:imperium orbis terrarum terminis definitur
to be a strict disciplinarian in one's household:severum imperium in suis exercere, tenere (De Sen. 11. 37)
monarchy:imperium singulare, unius dominatus, regium imperium
government by the mob:multitudinis dominatus orimperium
democracy:imperium populi orpopulare, civitas orres publica popularis
to confer supreme power on a person:imperium, rerum summam deferre alicui
to have power over some one:imperium tenere (in aliquem)
to maintain power, authority:imperium obtinere
to have unlimited power; to be invested withimperium:cum imperio esse (cf. XVI. 3)
to hold a high office (such as conferredimperium, i.e.consulatus, dictatura, praetura):in imperio esse
to prolong the command for a year:imperium in annum prorogare
to lay down one's power:imperium deponere (Rep. 2. 12. 23)
absolute power; autocracy:imperium singulare
to take upon oneself absolute power:imperium, regnum, tyrannidemoccupare
to attack, overthrow a tyranny:imperium oppugnare, percellere
to prolong a person's command:prorogare alicui imperium (in annum)
civil and military offices:magistratus et imperia (Sall. Iug. 3. 1)
to deprive a person of his position as commandant:abrogare alicui imperium
the command-in-chief:summa belli, imperii (B. G. 2. 4. 7)
to hold a high command:cum imperio esse
to be commander-in-chief:imperii summam tenere (Rep. 2. 28)
to be commander-in-chief:imperii summae praeesse
to appoint some one commander-in-chief:imperii summam deferre alicui orad aliquem, tradere alicui
the command is transferred, passes to some one:imperium transfertur ad aliquem (nottransit)
to depose a person from his command:imperium alicui abrogare (Off.3. 10)
to make oneself master of a people, country:populum, terram suo imperio, suae potestati subicere (notsibi by itself)
to make one's submission to some one:se imperio alicuius subicere (notalicui)
to be subject to some one, under some one's dominion:sub imperio et dicione alicuius esse
to be subject to some one, under some one's dominion:subiectum esse, obnoxium esse imperio ordicioni alicuius (not simplyalicui)
subjects:qui imperio subiecti sunt
“imperium”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“imperium”, inWilliam Smith et al., editor (1890),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
