01-23-2015, 10:15 PM
Quote:Respublica, meanwhile, I've always taken to refer to the Roman state generally, the 'public affairs', rather to a specific style of government or geographical area of control.
Agreed, and remember, Augustus reconstituted the res publica. And this never changed, even not after Diocletian asfaik.
Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas