auctoritas would, for example, persist through an usucapio of ill-gotten or abandoned property. Politically, the Roman Senate's authority (auctoritas...

that auctoritas and potestas are clearly distinct – although they form together a binary system". He quotes Mommsen, who explains that auctoritas is "less...

authority of bishops" (auctoritas sacrata pontificum) and the "royal power" (regalis potestas). These two principles—auctoritas lending justification to...

as sole heir. This early Principate phase began when Augustus claimed auctoritas for himself as princeps, and continued (depending on the source) up to...

virtus and its varied implications for freeborn Roman males. Dignitas and auctoritas were the result of displaying the values of the ideal Roman and the service...

continuity of sovereignty, attached to a personal form of power named Auctoritas. This is not so in some other monarchies where the new monarch's reign...

of the Senate but was vetoed was recorded in the annals as a senatus auctoritas, while any motion that was passed and not vetoed was recorded as a senatus...

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in the form of an auctoritas patrum ("authority of the fathers"). The lex Publilia modified this process, requiring the auctoritas patrum to be passed...

citizen to control a military or governmental entity. It is distinct from auctoritas and potestas, different and generally inferior types of power in the Roman...