auctoritas
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Vinony's link graph records 642 inbound references to auctoritas, and connects out to Roman Kingdom, plebeians and Roman emperor.
It is catalogued under topics including Ancient Roman virtues, Latin legal terminology and Latin words and phrases.
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Etymology and origin
- Political meaning in ancient Rome
- {{lang|la|Auctoritas principis}}
- Middle Ages
- See also
- References
- Citations
- General and cited references
thumb|300px|Representation of a sitting of the Roman Senate: Cicero attacks Catiline, from a 19th-century fresco
'''''' is a Latin word that is the origin of the English word "authority". While historically its use in English was restricted to discussions of the political history of Rome, the beginning of phenomenological philosophy in the 20th century expanded the use of the word.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “auctoritas” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.