<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Kevin Carson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:free.market.anticapitalist@gmail.com">free.market.anticapitalist@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Dante-Gabryell Monson<br>
<<a href="mailto:dante.monson@gmail.com">dante.monson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship</a><br>
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> In the french page on the subject, they mention the etymology of "the one<br>
> who talks",<br>
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</div>Along the same general lines, can't "Imperator" be translated loosely<br>
as "commander-in-chief"? �After his victory in the Civil War, Casear<br>
didn't use any regular title. �He simply signed orders "Iulius Caesar,<br>
Imperator."<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Yes, indeed - it seems "Imperator" is a title given to <b>"victorious generals when they return from a military campaign"</b></div><div>
<br></div><div>according to french wikipedia</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperator_(titre)">http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperator_(titre)</a></div><div><br></div><div>also interesting to note, when reading the english page of wikipedia,</div>
<div>that the title was used mostly in the "principate" and the "dominate" ( the last periods of the Roman "Empire"</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperator">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperator</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominate">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominate</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The�</span><b style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Dominate</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">�was the "</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Despotism" title="Despotism" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">despotic</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">" latter phase of government in the ancient�</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire" title="Roman Empire" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">Roman Empire</a>�<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">from the conclusion of the�</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_of_the_Third_Century" title="Crisis of the Third Century" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">Third Century Crisis</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">�of 235�284 until the formal date of the collapse of the�</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Roman_Empire" title="Western Roman Empire" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">Western Empire</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">�in AD 476.</span></div>
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