01-23-2015, 10:23 PM
Quote: the chapter here has some discussion of a later Roman 'shift in meaning' of the word imperium to denote 'a bounded territory of empire' rather than a sphere of authority:It is obviously difficult to assess the author's full argument from a brief extract but, although he makes a case for the Romans having a growing appreciation that there were limits to the reach of their imperium and that, in time, those limits coalesced into fixed boundaries, he does not seem to go so far as to state that they had a term for the 'Roman Empire' as such.
News and Frontier Consciousness in the Late Roman Empire
Michael King Macdona
And do as adversaries do in law, -
Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
(The Taming of the Shrew: Act 1, Scene 2)
And do as adversaries do in law, -
Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
(The Taming of the Shrew: Act 1, Scene 2)
