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So that the prince is so termed of the Latin word Princeps, since he is (as I may call him) the chief or principal next the king.
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But if it is meant, as I think it is, that the literary patronage of the Princeps was the same in kind as, and different only in degree from, that exercised by the great men of the Republican periodif that is meant, then we have gone beyond what is either true or plausible.
Introduction 1912
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Let this grave child come into the room, and all ended; as if the Princeps were a school-boy caught at it by some stern prowling schoolmaster.
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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Octavius, was censor, and in virtue of that office, even according to the constitution of the free republic, could reform the senate, expel unworthy members, name the Princeps Senatus, &c.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Further, the Emperors had at least maintained a facade, and sometimes a reality, of being a servant of the people – calling themselves Princeps, or something like the “first man.”
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » What’s Next — Dreaming of Mussolini? 2009
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Further, the Emperors had at least maintained a facade, and sometimes a reality, of being a servant of the people – calling themselves Princeps, or something like the “first man.”
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Domitian also abandoned use of Princeps, stopped paying even cursory lip service to the authority of the Senate, declared the seat of government to be wherever he personally was, etc.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » What’s Next — Dreaming of Mussolini? 2009
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Further, the Emperors had at least maintained a facade, and sometimes a reality, of being a servant of the people – calling themselves Princeps, or something like the “first man.”
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » What’s Next — Dreaming of Mussolini? 2009
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Cross referenced from Taylor and Company, Civitas et Princeps Cura Nostra * a blog that celebrates the invisible consumer goods of white privilege. posted by Fenris Badwulf at 11: 31 PM
This Just In 2008
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I finished reading Princeps' Fury by Jim Butcher about 10 days ago...and it took me 2 weeks or so to read it.
Quick Take: Princep's Fury by Jim Butcher Jeff C 2010
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