On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Kevin Carson
<free.market.anticapitalist@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Dante-Gabryell Monson
<dante.monson@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship
> In the french page on the subject, they mention the etymology of "the one
> who talks",
Along the same general lines, can't "Imperator" be translated loosely
as "commander-in-chief"? After his victory in the Civil War, Casear
didn't use any regular title. He simply signed orders "Iulius Caesar,
Imperator."
Yes, indeed - it seems "Imperator" is a title given to "victorious generals when they return from a military campaign"
according to french wikipedia
also interesting to note, when reading the english page of wikipedia,
that the title was used mostly in the "principate" and the "dominate" ( the last periods of the Roman "Empire"
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