The word dignitas is a Latin rhetorical and political term indicating either the possession of high political or social rank or the moral qualities associated with it. ❋ CHARLES TRINKAUS (1968)
You, standing proud in your "dignitas" could've called the Republicans 'bluff and filibustered his nomination. ❋ Unknown (2007)
He links the meals to the French adage "le roi ne meurt jamais" "the king never dies", and explains that the monarch's dignitas, or authority, outlived his bodily presence. ❋ Julianne Douglas (2008)
The rise of race suicide again in France Roman Gaul where the dignitas family lost once more its conception that it exists for purposes of reproduction. ❋ Papabear (2008)
The development of a “public” which would not permit dual marriage forms, along with the rise of social and intellectual classes who want non-dignitas marriage. ❋ Papabear (2008)
Not being able to achieve it, especially among those cultures derived from the barbarian, by the use of a concubinatus or non-dignitas form, they have led the way in breaking up the dignitas form. ❋ Papabear (2008)
The spread of this idea into cultures derived from barbarian law England, Sweden, Germany, and the United States where the dignitas family also lost its reproductive conceptions. ❋ Papabear (2008)
Yes, thought Caesarion, I too will preserve my dignitas! ❋ Colleen McCullough (2007)
Tiberius, and Haman by Ahasuerus: I resolve with Gregory, potestas culminis, est tempestas mentis; et quo dignitas altior, casus gravior, honour is a tempest, the higher they are elevated, the more grievously depressed. ❋ Unknown (2007)
When Caesar the God crossed the Rubicon into civil war, he had done it to protect his dignitas, which he had held dearer than his life. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2007)
All I wish to keep is my dignitas, which entails my status as a consular, as your princeps senatus, and my personal rank as an honorary tribune of the plebs. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2007)
He keeps in for state, ne majestatis dignitas evilescat, as our China kings, of Borneo, and Tartarian Chams, those aurea mancipia, are said to do, seldom or never seen abroad, ut major sit hominum erga se observantia, which the [3704] Persian kings so precisely observed of old. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Even in his last moments Caesar had preserved his dignitas intact; instead of continuing to fight, he had used the tiny fraction of time he had left to draw one fold of toga over his face, and another down past his knees. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2007)
Quid est dignitas indigno nisi circulus aureus in naribus suis. ❋ Unknown (2007)
A cruel blow that utterly destroyed your dignitas. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2007)
And when all was done, what Caesar had prized above everything else in his life was dignitas. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2007)
