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What was the ‘Imperium Romanum’?*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 September 2009

Andrew Lintott
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The imperium populi Romani was the power Romans exercised over other peoples, viewed in its widest sense. What we call the Roman empire, that is the empire viewed as a political entity, was usually conceived by the Romans in terms of people, the populus Romanus and its sodi et amid. The latter were differentiated into various categories according to their form of government and the terms of their association with Rome, but they were united in being regarded as contributors to Roman power and proper subjects for Roman concern.

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Research Article
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Greece & Rome , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , April 1981 , pp. 53 - 67
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1981

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