Sentences with 'imperium'
Example sentences and phrases with the word imperium and other words derived from it.
• « The consuls had almost unlimited power, known as imperium, including the right to inflict the death penalty on lawbreakers, and were preceded everywhere by twelve bodyguards called lictors. »
• « As Augustus' powers grew, he received an entirely novel legal status, the imperium majus, which was something like access to the extraordinary powers of a dictator under the Republic. »