Princeps

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First in time or order; the first, foremost,1 chief, the most eminent, distinguished, or noble; the first man, first person. Urban Dictionary

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- Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth). ❋ Unknown (2009)

PAGE 8: “‘by taking the inoffensive title princeps first citizen’” Marvin Perry, Margaret Jacob, James Jacob, Myrna Chase, and Theodore H. ❋ Glenn Beck (2010)

“In keeping with his policy of maintaining the appearance of traditional republican government, Octavian refused to be called king or even, like Caesar, dictator; instead, he cleverly disguised his autocratic rule by taking the inoffensive title princeps first citizen.” ❋ Glenn Beck (2010)

In its explicit Cice - ronian version the princeps is the “ruler of the com - monwealth” (rector rei publicae) in a purely ideal sense: as princeps, he occupies no official position and pos - sesses no legal power, but he actually guides the balanced constitution of the Roman state from the outside as it were, whatever his formal political function, by dint of the magnetic moral virtues and merits which made ❋ LEONARD KRIEGER (1968)

He had held the title "Prince of Wales" since infancy and even signed himself "princeps" in his personal correspondence, but had not yet been invested with the title ceremonially. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He had held the title "Prince of Wales" since infancy and even signed himself "princeps" in his personal correspondence but had not yet been invested with title ceremonially. ❋ Unknown (2008)

We find a passage in an ancient author, [*] by which it appears that a person of very noble birth, even one allied to the crown, was not esteemed a "princeps" (the term usually employed by ancient historians, when the wittenagemot is mentioned) till he had acquired a fortune of that amount. ❋ David Hume (1743)

"princeps," which, like "imperator," had two different meanings at two different periods of Roman history, meaning, in the time of the Republic, merely "a leading man of the City," and, in the time of the Empire, the Emperor only. ❋ John Wilson Ross (1852)

In return for this self-effacing gesture the Senate, its palm greased by the promised restoration of its former constitutional powers, urged Octavian to become consul for life and pressed on him the appellations of Augustus, meaning “divinely favored one,” and princeps, or “first citizen,” familiarly used in the Republic for a leading statesman. ❋ Annelise Freisenbruch (2010)

On becoming princeps Augustus also added an extension to his home in the form of a temple to his patron god, Apollo, which covered an area half the size of a soccer field. ❋ Annelise Freisenbruch (2010)

Pertinax himself was so determined not to be accused of despotism that he emulated Augustus by styling himself princeps senatus and declining to accept for his wife, Flavia Titiana, the title of Augusta. ❋ Annelise Freisenbruch (2010)

As his chief residence he chose a mansion in the beautiful Gardens of Sallust, where he made himself accessible to his subjects and earned a reputation as an unassuming, generous, down-to-earth princeps, fond of a dirty joke and a game at the ball courts.24 ❋ Annelise Freisenbruch (2010)

Literary references to individual imperial women as princeps femina include Ovid, Epistulae ex Ponto 3.1.125 and Ovid, Tristia 1.6.25; the anonymous Consolatio ad Liviam 303 (all referring to Livia); and Macrobius, Saturnalia 2.5.6 (referring to both Livia and Julia). ❋ Annelise Freisenbruch (2010)

Note 63: "Nolo te Scipionem, sed Alexandrum, respondit; fuit enim, ut tu, principis filius, et ipse princeps clarissimus." ❋ Unknown (2008)

Until the princeps monopolized the creation of law circa 200 b. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It may be that “princeps” is intended, which would make principium genitive plural, as in the Horatian ode — “of princes.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

I was aware that “princeps” is often translated as “prince” and that they have the same root. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Venetian and Flemish printers who published his first works continued to issue madrigals, chansons and sacred music; in the 1560s Berg in Munich, Montanus and Neuber in Nuremberg now Nürnberg, and Le Roy & Ballard in Paris began to print individual works, then series of volumes devoted to the music of the man becoming known as ‘princeps musicorum’ and the ‘divin Orlande’. ❋ Lu (2009)

Even more evident is the predominant role - whether real or imaginary – of the individual as demonstrated by the respect in which the princeps musicorum Josquin Desprez was held throughout the entire 16th century and in the most diverse quarters. ❋ Lu (2009)

Odessa: 1870 (edition princeps Constantinople: 1530). ❋ Unknown (2009)

[Augustus] was [actually] the princeps of [Roman empire] ❋ Ashi@aa (2019)

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